Re: [gentoo-user] Add in cards?

[Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>]

On Sunday 05 December 2004 11:54 am, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sunday 05 December 2004 17:31, Mike Williams wrote:
> > On Sunday 05 December 2004 16:22, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > as long as you are not using via-boards, you should be fine.
> > > >
> > > > btw, aren't the promise-drivers closed source?
> > >
> > > There is no fundamental problem that makes Promise cards fail on Via
> > > boards. I use them together under Windows and Linux.
> >
> > Drivers have also been in all stock kernels for *years*.
> > Never had to look to Promise for drivers for their cards, so don't know
> > if they have written their own.
>
> that is nice to know. hm but their raid-drivers are closed, aren't they?
>

Maybe. But what was being discussed was the ULTRA 133TX which is not raid...

> If I have a look at the promise-website I find a lot of downloadable
> drivers for SuSE and RedHat, does not look much like 'in kernel'
>

The driver is in the kernel, under drivers, ata... PDC202xx...

Cheers.



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