Dennis Myers wrote: >On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:13 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > >>Hi all, was wondering if anyone has had success with an addon pci >>Controller card. I want to add a CDROM drive to my set up but have no IDE >>connections available. I would like to add a card but can not find anything >>in "supported hardware" to tell me if a "Promise card" or some other brand >>card will work without having the linux drivers. Any advice is appreciated, >>Thanks. >> > >Never mind, with a bit of searching I find that there are a couple that are >supported. Most common being the Promise IDE PCI controller. Now All I have >to do is figure out how to compile the module into my kernel. Ya gotta love >Mandrake-Linux. It has it all. This from the 9.0 beta1. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Ummm you do not need to compile it into your kernel... the driver is already there if you install with it (and installation is recommended because the controller will probably be hda-hdd while the on-board will be hde-hdh.
Civileme
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