Re: Precision card conundrum : Woody (bf2.4)
Well it sort of answers it, if you're referring to:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/26/2003/07/3/69151
It means not using a stable version, but using an unstable version -
which I'm not too keen on.
There must be another solution one way or another.
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:40:17 -0600, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:46 +0000, jim biri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a machine with Woody (bf2.4) setup.
> > I'd like to setup another IDE disk controller to setup software RAID 1.
> >
> > Following various posts to this newsgroup, I've ended up looking at:
> >
> > Precision Ultra ATA 133 TX2:
> > http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productId=87&familyId=3
> >
> > I've looked at what IDE controller chipsets are supported by the 2.4
> > kernel by looking at:
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
> >
> > For Promise, that Hardware-HOWTO page lists: PDC20246/PDC20262/PDC20267
> >
> > The chipset for this card is PDC20269 (I know, I asked Promise):
> > Promise don't offer any Linux drivers on their site, and when asked
> > why not, Promise said:
> > "Linux should have it embedded in the OS". Nice answer, but the
> > evidence seems to disagree with them:
> [snip]
> > I don't know whether any of these make any difference, anyone know?
> >
> > Now, I'm at a loss: I'd like to buy this, I don't particularly wish to
> > upgrade to the 2.6 kernel .... so any suggestions?
> >
> > It seems that the chipsets listed as being supported are so old, that
> > you can't actually buy something with those chipsets, can only buy
> > things with new chipsets ... which aren't listed as being supported,
> > and don't seem to supply source!
>
> Did you try googling on this?
> linux PDC20269
>
> The 1st hit answers your question.
>
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