On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:42:42PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive controller and some ATA/133 > > drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup? > > > you need to download and apply the ata/133 patches to the kernel... > > http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Patches/*ata133* > > http://www.LinuxDiskCert.org/ > ( patches probably merged into the newer kernels
Are these patches needed if I just want to use the (promise ata133) controller in ata100 mode? I've been using the 2.4.17 kernel, which supports the Promise family of IDE controllers (at least up ata100, I believe). My diald server box is using the promise ata100 controller with the 2.4.17 kernel compiled with promise IDE support. So I just bought a promise ata133 controller, but an ata100 drive for my workstation box. Clearly I don't need ata133 support, the ata100 support offered stock in 2.4.17 should do, as long as the controller drives are the same. Thanks, Matt (bad block scans take a loooong time on a 120 GB drive!)
