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Originally Posted by pingu
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Thanks a lot for your help, and pointing me to a future source of info.
Late last night I lost my cool and pulled the Ultra66 Promise card, but also had to lose one disk as 2 are the limit with no controller card - and it works now, speeds are not noticably different.
So I think you are right about no driver.. it's just uncomprehensable to me what is going on as I have a copy of the - at the time - latest Windows driver for the Promise card loaded, and everything works fine under Windows even though the BIOS did not see the Disks under IDE configuration.
AND under my old Linux install - which I've lost... it all worked fine. So I guess on the Linux side none of the 3 newer distros and different kernels supported the Promise Controller.. ?? ...
And sad to say I cannot seem to get the new distros (Slackware, Ubunto) to load on the old PC. Probably not unreasonable, considering it's a 15 year old computer. I'd like to catch up on some years of Linux development.
If any help on that from anyone would appreciate it.
I know... $300 would get me a new computer with no hassles but I happen to have this one and its here and free... and I've learned a lot for when I load a new computer...
And thanks pingu for your assistance and answering me.