Re: A question regarding hardware
But I do not think THIS promise card is supported. I have not seen any
DMA33 support in Linux yet.
On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Lightning Firestormer wrote:
> > To: "Lightning Firestormer" <lightningfire@lightspeed.net>
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: A question regarding hardware
> > Reply-to: pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu
> > From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>
> > Date: 13 Dec 1997 10:20:01 -0500
>
> > (B) If not, is there anything that can be done to get it to detect?
> >
> > Yes. There is a compile-time kernel option to switch on support for
> > Promise IDE interface cards. You could turn this on and recompile.
> > Possibly, the default kernel includes this, but I'm not certain of
> > that.
>
> The only problem that I could see with this would be that I'd sort of
> need to get things INSTALLED first in order to get the compiler
> installed and get the option turned on. Thing is, my main hard drive
> is connected to said controller, making installation
> rather.....interesting. Only other drive on the system is the Jaz,
> which is slow as all hell. I guess I _could_ always move the hard
> drive onto the interface on the motherboard, temporarily (I don't
> normally use it because of its not supporting DMA/33), and then move
> it back onto the Promise card after the kernel is recompiled. It's
> not the cleanest way to get things working, but I guess it WOULD
> work.
>
> Lightning
>
>
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