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Linux Install Problem | by Arcanum | 2002-06-02 08:26:37 |
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Do they have to be cabled through the card? | by Llyr | 2002-06-02 08:29:23 |
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I could, but... | by Arcanum | 2002-06-02 08:34:54 |
| Drivers for an accelerator card? <LOL> |
by sailorbeavis |
2002-06-02 10:30:28 |
I was considering a similar tactic for installing Linux on a third hard drive in my PC - I had, at the time, two nearly-full HDs, a CD-ROM drive and a ZIP drive, so all my IDE slots were full. Pick up a cheap 10 GB drive and a PCI controller card, and all will be well, I thought.
Very, very few PCI IDE expansion boards are compatible with Linux. Even the major manufacturers like SIIG won't respond to my questions as to why they don't make Linux drivers. I searched both RedHat and SUSE's databases and found nothing. (Then the computer shorted out anyway, killing everything, so now I'm dual-booting from one 60 GB Seagate...)
If you have a Maxtor or Western Digital hard drive (I'm not speaking for Quantum or Fujitsu, having no recent experience with their firmware), the drives will auto-sense down to ATA/33. You can also download a utility that will do the same thing. I personally have never noticed any real difference between ATA/33 and ATA/66, or ATA/66 and ATA/100. But most of my work requires minimal data transfer, so the longest my hard drive works consistently is when I defrag it. :-)
Put the Linux drive on the motherboard and forget about the expansion board if you can. (Unless you want to access your Windows documents and programs through Wine, then you're screwed.) |
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It's an SIIG 133 card, and there are | by Arcanum | 2002-06-02 11:34:46 |
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