[TriLUG] PCI ATA controllers

Daniel T. Chen crimsun at email.unc.edu
Wed Sep 4 01:31:47 EDT 2002


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Stephen Schaefer wrote:
> Could anyone recommend to me a PCI ATA controller?
> Something to allow me a second hard drive in addition
> to my CD drive.  Of course, I'm asking TriLug since I
> need Linux support.  Thanks,

I've had good luck with Promise add-on controllers. The ones
built onto newer motherboards, however, I hear can be
problematic.

As a side note, Red Hat generally has excellent support for
Promise add-on controllers (and sometimes those pesky built-in
ones as well) in their newer kernels.

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