Re: Promise or Highpoint IDE card?

[Samuel Flory]

Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>  Hi,
>  Does anybody know if the IDE Cards from Promise and/or Highpoint work in 
>  Fedora core-1?
>  I'm specially interested in Promise FastTrack 133 or HighPoint 372.
>  I don't want to use the RAID functions, just the IDE part.
>  I can't find good infos...
>  Thanks
>  -jec
>   

   The Promise FastTrak will work fine as an IDE controller.  Attempting 
to use the driver based raid features can only end badly.  Read the 
ataraid list archives for details.  The HPT 372 is said to be much the 
same, but I'd not used it much.

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