On 18 Dec, this message from jingai echoed through cyberspace: > ..I went down to the local PC wholesale shop thing and got > myself a Promise Ultra100 PCI card and an 20GB IDE drive > (the two together were $150...... sure beat the $260 for a > SCSI drive of the same size). I was certain it wouldn't work, > but lo and behold, it was probably one of the least painful > things I've installed in a while :) Two sets of kernel patches > (Michel Lanner's PCI patches and Hedrik's IDE patches), > one kernel build, and bingo, works like a charm.
Good to see I could help :-). For the record, the card should work out-of-the-box with recent PPC 2.4 kernels; PCI patches and IDE stuff is in there. > Not to > mention it's loads faster than my SCSI drives (mostly > because they are on the int MESH SCSI controller, and > I didn't feel like shelling out $300 for a good SCSI > controller). Why do you think I bougth the Ultra/66 in the first place? ;-) Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
