Does anyone know of a source for Linux drivers for the new Drivezilla drives. They come bundled with a Promise ATA controller. Western Digital does not support Linux on this controller. Someone must be working on a driver for these new 200 GB drives.

Good luck, I found one hit on google/linux.

And that was from a blog...


John

If this is a normal ATA100 IDE hard disk then its not the drive that needs support, Linux can handle stupid big partitions, its the ATA100 controller. If its a Highpoint 374, no... I don't even think Highpoint has released Linux kernel drivers yet. If its a HPT372, yes, but only with the drivers from Highpoint, if its the HPT370, its been in the kernel for a year and is usually compiled in by default on most distros release kernel these days.

Drive recognition is usually a BIOS issue, which is why the need for these riser cards as they have an independant BIOS that no matter what will be able to recognize the drive and any machine on the PCI 2.0 or greater standard for its mobo will be able to see the riser card. That makes it so you can stick this rig in anything dating back to around the end of the Pentium 1 series.

Cheers,

Finegan