Re: Promise Ultra 66
karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
>> The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use
>> bootfloppies with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66
>> support (using the IDE patches from
>> ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure if
>> potato's bootfloppies (will) support UDMA66.
> Oh, so _that_ is what the "ide" kernel is for. I wish the long
> description in the package would at least describe what it's for...
>
> Should we create another flavor "ide"?
Yes -- tausq is working on a no-scsi flavor and the ide flavor. We
already have the kernel and pcmcia modules in potato for the ide patch
flavor. Randolph had a good name for it... I think maybe the name was
-idepatch or -udma66.
So hopefully we will have this ready soon.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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