From: Aaron Binns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Does anyone know if there is driver support for the Promise
>ATA/100 controller
>on the Asus A7V motherboard? I want to have my hard drive
>running off this
>controller, but I need to know if Linux is going to suport it,
>as without the
>drivers "some-other-OS's" (tm) will not install to devices off
>this controller.
>
>Also, I was wondering if anyone knew how much faster of slower
>(I hope not!)
>Linux runs compared to NT/Win2K on dual processor machines. I
>heard someone tell
>me between 60-80% of the combined speeds of the two chips.
2.4 has support for the A7V built in. To install on the ATA-100 with 2.2,
just get the linux-ide patches and install with the drive connected to the
ATA-66 interface. Then move the drive to the ATA-100 and it should just
work (haven't tried this myself yet).
Performance on both Linux and NT/Win2k on SMP boxes depends heavily on the
application. I haven't had much experience with SMP Linux, but 2 CPUs on
NT/Win2k goes anywhere from no improvement to over 99% improvement over 1
CPU. I've heard similar results for Linux.
Note that 2.4 is a lot better with SMP than 2.2 is. There are many more
locks removed from the kernel.
John Wiltshire
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