Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 21:36:51 04/23/02
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On April 23, 2002 at 23:03:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 23, 2002 at 16:54:28, Kevin Strickland wrote: > >>I have an older PIII 550 that I am using for online games that is also my >>webserver. Over the past few days I have had some problems where the drive just >>seems to lock up. I have tracked the problem down to my ATA100 card. The drive >>runs perfectly fine on the ATA33 controller that is on the motherboard. >> >>My question is.. on this old system is it really going to matter whether I use >>ATA100 or ATA33? How much of a speed decrease am I going to notice? Should I go >>out and get another card? >> >>On a side note it seems I also can't install Linux with most of the newer ATA100 >>cards out there. I had some problems as well with the one that just died. >> >> >>Any help would be really appreciated. Since hardware is such a big thing here I >>was hoping I would get some help here. > > >I don't follow the EIDE development in the Linux kernel, but we have had >success with a couple of ATA100's... are you using the 2.4 kernels? and >(say) RedHat 7.2??? I am using the cds I downloaded from the ftp server. I have not updated the kernel as of yet as I can't get it to install. Oh yes Red Hat 7.2. Any suggestions? Or should I just use the ATA33 and not have to bother with the ATA100 card. Since it died Maxtor is kind enough to warranty it and send me a ne one.
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