On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Arunava Sen generated:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> But seriously, I don't think you could have any problems with new
>> hardware, the latest kernel supports most everything out there, and
>> anything not directly in the kernel (like the EIDE chipset on this mobo)
>> has patches floating around the 'net.
>
>Interesting you should mention the EIDE.... for a little while now i
>have been planning my new box (im gonna go with the Abit-Kt7 when it
>retails). this eide ata-66/ ata-100 thing has been confusing me.
>do you actually have the udma 66 working with the penguin? does your
>mobo have ata-100? if so, have you got that working?
Its an HPT370 chipset, and two "default" kernels I have tried have
detected it. SuSE 6.4 Evaluation edition installation kernel detects it
as an HPT330, and the mobo came with it's own Linux distro, Gentus
Linux, which is based on RedHat and that fully detected the chipset too.
The chipset is an Ultra ATA/66 controller; and though I don't have any ATA/66
drives, so I haven't fully tested it, from what I gather it does work.
Once I have this machine fully set up and to my liking, I'll report back
on how good the drivers are.
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