yeah you can just get pci card - ide controllers. but first of all i would make sure your running the latest version of your distribution of choice.
you could upgrade your kernel (which is effectively what im saying) but i would just stick with easy steps for now and just make sure your distribution is up to date and hence that your kernel is fairly new.
you would have to find out what chips you are running exactly then see how well they are support. generally though most of the hardware problems of the past have gone. most of the big manufacturers now give out specs i believe. they are pretty much killing themselves now if they dont. i think creative pretty much proved that being silly about it just gets your hardware blacklisted and when you release specs (and crap drivers) assuming your hardware is good someone will fix them nicely. sb live is what i was refering to.
initially black listed but now probably the best sound card for linux.
Dean
Rod Butcher wrote:
Thanks... how do I check what IDE controller I have ? I have a $99 Gigabyte board with all Via chips. How do you use a separate controller ? PCI board ? (be patient with me, I'm used to Windows and "don't you worry about that").
thanks, Rod
Dean Hamstead wrote:
ide is way better on linux than in windows but that all depends on the support for your ide controller chip (so basically the driver)
options include upgrading your kernel or getting another ide controller. i just bought a nice silicon image pci ide controller for $40 whole dollars that gives me another 2 channels ata133
Dean
Rod Butcher wrote:
Newbie here again... I think I've narrowed dow my "system flakiness" during heavy audio editing to a 10-gig Seagate IDE drive I was using for temp work files... switching these to the main SATA 120 gig drive results in a stable system. Reason for using the IDE drive was to try and spread the disk IO around. My IDE CDROM R/W drive is also flaky on Linux... both IDE devices work great on Win2K dualbooted on the same box. So - is IDE known to be flaky on Linux, or is it a matter of me configuring my system better ? The CD Burner is old anyway and only writes these days at 2x, so I need to get another one soon - question is, what type should I get to suit Linux ?
thanks
Rod
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