Hi, Roy.
-=> on 02-27-05 12:06, ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> On the Promise card the drive would be /dev/hde.

 RJT> I did try one of those cards one time in a linux box here.  With the MB
 RJT> stuff still enabled,  the ports on that card were hde, f, g, and h if
 RJT> I'm remembering right (with a, b, c, and d being the original MB
 RJT> ports).  What I wanted to try but haven't gotten around to yet was
 RJT> disabling the ports in the CMOS setup and seeing if the ones on the
 RJT> card would then be seen as hda, etc.

I iggorant about Linux, so I don't know what would happen to Linux
drive assignments with onboard IDE0 disabled, but here's how the Promise
card worked here for DOS/Win - -

With onboard IDE0 disabled and former drive CHS info removed from SETUP
and IDE0 set to NONE, and with onboard IDE1 left ennabled for CDROM
support and set to NONE, the HDD attached to the Promise card is seen by
DOS/Win as C:>. At this point, the card and HDD were running at a
default speed. After Win98 was loaded and the Promise driver installed,
then the card could run up to UDMA66, and the Promise card would support
CDROM, and I could bounce the CDROM ribbon cable back and forth from
onboard IDE1 to IDE2 on the Promise card.  Whichever location the ribbon
cable was attached, the HDD stayed at C:> and the CDROM was at D:>.

- - -  JimH.

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