Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

(I don't think I sent this earlier, but if I did, sorry...) On Sunday 15 May 2005 0315, somebody named Rogério Brito inscribed this message: ... > Does your card allow you to boot from an IDE device? Is it well > supported under Linux and MacOS X? Unfortunately, finding IDE cards is > not easy he

Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

Rogerio, > Thanks for letting me know that there may be problems ahead. I thought > that I would import one of these as it sounds like a good deal (less > expensive than getting 3 cards, not to mention higher availability of > slots and, the main factor, PCI IDE cards here aren't easy to find). T

Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

Hi, Nathanael. On May 14 2005, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote: > From what all I've heard, I believe the Sonnet cards are pretty well > unsupported. Well, it's good to know that before I spend the money on expansion cards. > I *can*, however, recommend Promise ide cards - I have a TX2 (ATA-100) in >

Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

Hi, Vinai. On May 14 2005, vinai wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > Since the disk is now a bottleneck, I was thinking of upgrading the > > system with a Sonnet's Tempo Trio card, that has information available > > at . > > Rogerio, > > Take a lo

Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

On Saturday 14 May 2005 0814, somebody named vinai inscribed this message: > Take a look at this page: > > http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/sonnet_ide_cards_and_10_2.html > > According to the information there, the Trio has a Promise chipset, and > I believe the linux kernel does indeed have supp

Re: Question on Sonnet's Tempo Trio Card

> Since I have recently received a G3 upgrade card for an old PowerMac > 9500 that my uncle once lent me and since now I have 192MB of memory, > the system is a bit more usable than it was ealier. > > Since the disk is now a bottleneck, I was thinking of upgrading the > system with a Sonnet's Tempo