On 31 Jan, Eric Timme punched keys in this particular order:
After wrestling with an 80gb hd and an Abit BX6-R2 for an afternoon and being
pleasantly surprised that Abit's last bios release would allow my board to
detect and use an 80gb hd I came to the sad realization that the computer
One small word of caution though, if you move a boot drive to the new
controller, you will have an... interesting.. time with updating your
/etc/fstab and the disklabel to get it to mount root from the right drive
and upgrade the mount to r/w. My advice would probably be to boot once with
J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ snip: adding ata100 controller ]
This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive
connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS.
If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot
At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a
knob?
I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I
actually worked with that old hardware) you should be able to ignore the
BIOS setting completely, as
Eric Timme wrote:
I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant
me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, and if so,
how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives connected up to
said controller card?
I've done exactly the
J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:04 1/02/2003 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a
knob?
I'm going out on a limb here, but IIRC (it's been a long time since I
actually worked with that old hardware) you should be
At 18:56 31/01/2003 -0600, Eric Timme wrote:
I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant
me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133,
Based on personal experience, I would say nay. It depends on what you are
running on the box though - if you
