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On Sunday 05 December 2004 11:54 am, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Sunday 05 December 2004 17:31, Mike Williams wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 05 December 2004 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > > > as long as you are not using via-boards, you should be fine. |
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> > > > btw, aren't the promise-drivers closed source? |
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> > > There is no fundamental problem that makes Promise cards fail on Via |
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> > > boards. I use them together under Windows and Linux. |
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> > Drivers have also been in all stock kernels for *years*. |
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> > Never had to look to Promise for drivers for their cards, so don't know |
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> > if they have written their own. |
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> that is nice to know. hm but their raid-drivers are closed, aren't they? |
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Maybe. But what was being discussed was the ULTRA 133TX which is not raid... |
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> If I have a look at the promise-website I find a lot of downloadable |
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> drivers for SuSE and RedHat, does not look much like 'in kernel' |
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The driver is in the kernel, under drivers, ata... PDC202xx... |
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Cheers. |
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