Re: promise supertrak sx6000 crashes XFree86

[pascal <pascal@deception.nl>]

>this means, that the driver from promise.com (which uses the hardware
>features of the card) only runs with 2.4.
>
>in 2.6, you can use the card as a normal ata card. 2.6 does recognize
>the card as a normal ata card, 2.4 does not recognize it at all without
>the promise.com driver.
>
>  
>

Just tried to compile it against the 2.6 kernel. It doesn't. Also it
tries to make a pti_st.o module. Believe this doesn't run in a 2.6
kernel, not?

So this means I bought a very expensive but useless card?

What is a nice one which will run on my system?


Pascal.