Sorry, I can't confirm it even though I built a system outta this
board. The whole system is in San Jose. I just defaulted on everything
including using the regular UDMA-66 channels instead of the UDMA-100
ones. I only had one day to get everything installed & setup.
:( FL
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Lupo wrote:
> I also am thinking of building a new home system. I'm looking at an AMD
> Thunderbird on an Asus Board. The Asus A7V has two Ultra DMA 100
> controllers. As far as Linux compatibility goes, I found this page:
>
> www.linux-ide.org/ultra100.html
>
> Asus uses a Promise controller, though I couldn't determine whether it was
> the exact chip number listed on the above page.
>
> It's probably supported, especially in the 2.4 kernel.
>
> -- Chris
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Mytho X wrote:
>
> > I was thinking of building a new system as well, however I was waiting
> > to find out if ATA-100 is supported.
> >
> > I have read the Ultra DMA how-to and it has not been updated regarding
> > ATA-100, Does anyone know if linux can support it (is in drivers)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
> > Foo Lim wrote:
> >
> >
> > > There are newer mobos coming out for the Athlon with ATA-100 built-in.
> > > The A7V mentioned above has a Promise ATA-100 controller on-board in
> > > addition to the regular ATA-33/66 main IDE bus, so I think it can support
> > > 8 drives altogether (altho I haven't tried it nor does the docs say
> > > anything about that).
> >
>
