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Subject: Re: Computer problems.. [OT] But please help.. Robert possibly?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:35:24 04/24/02

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On April 24, 2002 at 00:36:51, Kevin Strickland wrote:

>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.


First, you need to go to a recent 2.4 kernel.  2.4.18 is running on all my
machines here...

That might get your ata100 working.  If not, I'd ignore it and keep going with
the ata33 built-in controller you have...



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