With a KT7 etc you get an extra controller on board. However, be aware
that companies like Highpoint provide no support for linux
whatsoever. They are happy to provide links to Andre Hedrick's work on
their website, but these drivers are not fully functional, and as far as
I can tell, Highpoint have made no contribution to their development
whatsoever. They ignore all emails concerning a timeframe for full linux
support. Further, the Highpoint controllers are not fully compliant with
IDE devices, for example two out of two cd drives I tried on mine didn't
work, and Highpoint simply told me that the controller was incompatible
with many devices including cd drives. So ymmv, depending on what you
want to connect, and RAID is out of the question under linux atm.
cheers,
Martin
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Daniel Finn wrote:
> you can have 8 devices when you have a motherboard like the Abit Kt7-raid
>
> as it has two standard ports that are ata66 compitable... and then
> another two ports which are on an onboard highpoint controller, and are
> ata-100 comp and raid 0 and 1 comp...
>
> so you have the standard two + two extra ports...
>
> thus with 2 devices on each port you get a total of 8 devices...
>
> Daniel
>
> Richard Blackburn wrote:
>
> > I saw some stuff somewhere about being able to set up 8 IDE devices to
> > work on an Intel box instead of the usual 4. Anybody heard of or tried
> > this with Linux?
> > Richard
>
>
>
>
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