Civilme,
In light of what you say below, would you say that IBM drives are
better than names like Maxtor or Western Digital?
Mike
Civileme wrote: (snip)
> Steve,
>
> There is a driver for the Promise Card, but it must be used
> post-install, The install kernel does not support Ultra DMA Mode
> 4 (ATA/66). There are various reasons for this, but the largest
> one looming is that the advanced pentium code has uncovered all
> sorts of timing flaws in big name brand drives, and they will
> destroy your data reliably or give you "lost interrupt" errors
> running under 586 code and Ultra-66. Your IBM dirve is one of
> the few and the rare that have the timing right to the
> specifications.
> Civileme
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