JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> 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.

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

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

I suspect this has more to do with how dos/win assigns drive letters than
anything else.  I have a bunch of stuff going at this point in time,  but
should get back to experimenting with that fairly shortly.

There are times here when things bog down.  In particular,  I do my email
on one box,  but the mail files themselves are stored on another box,  and
that's when I see that HD light come on and stay on solid,  and I keep
thinking that a bit more performance there wouldn't be a bad thing.  I'll
get to it one of these days.  Meantime I'm busy _using_ the system too much
to want to shut it down and play with it.

When I do get around to that,  I've got a SCSI card for the scanner to put
in, and a sound card to pull out and stick in the other machine as well. 
We'll see how it goes...

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