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On Sunday 05 December 2004 17:22, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:15:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 05 December 2004 03:45, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> > > Would anyone recommend an add-in IDE card for the PCI bus? In |
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> > > particular, I'd like to add four more IDE hard drives to my server. |
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> > > Thank you, in advance. |
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> > > Jerry |
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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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no, there is a problem with VIA and PCI in general, not promise related. |
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If you want to use your pci-bus for more than moving data to the soundcard, |
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via has a long history of pci-quirks that makes it a dubious choice for a |
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stable environment. That is all. I do not trust via boards. |
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