Matt Mc_Carthy wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 ->> That's because linux doesn't _need_ such cards to work with large
 ->> drives in older systems...

 TW>>  But if you want the Capabilities of that Shiny NEW 250 gig IDE 
 TW>> 133 Drive in that OLDER system you DO NEED such a card !!   :-)  
 TW>> :-)

 RJT> No you don't.

 MMC> Then you won't get the IDE133.  Your onboard chipset does not
 MMC> support it, Linux can't make it support it either, you'll run at
 MMC> IDE33.

I've already acknowledged my oops,  here,  but I'll say it again -- I was
considering being able to access the space,  and not the speed issue at all
when I wrote that.  Oh well...   :-)

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