On Wednesday September 3 2003 09:26 am, Eko Budiharto wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> isn't the 9.2 still beta? If not, can you tell me where you get
> the non beta version?
It's not so much a Mandrake version deal, as it is kernel and
driver. Promise recently released their SATA driver under the GPL,
an I believe it's already in the latest kernels. That's the one
I'd need, so it's the only one I've paid any attention to. I'm
pretty sure 9.x would handle SATA, but I don't know which
controllers are supported, if you'd need a newer kernel, or if
you'd need to d/l a 3rd party driver for your SATA controller.
OTOH, I don't believe SATA is that much if any improvement over
ATA/133. I've read Net reports to that affect. Some Mandrake users
have posted SATA hdparm -Tt numbers on various groups an forums, an
they're all less then the numbers my ATA/133 puts out. Actually
most of 'em were closer to what my ATA/100 drive gets.
(Eko, you've got your mailer's 'reply to' set to yourself. You
should leave the reply to configuration line blank. Thanks)
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