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On Sun, December 5, 2004 12:30 pm, Jerry McBride said: |
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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 |
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>> 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 |
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> 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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i have this card and i've had 0 problems with it. |
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