https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=244502 ------- Comment #4 from jonhp@charter.net 2007-02-24 11:29 MST ------- Hi, First let me say how important I think it is to solve the SUSE problems supporting the Highpoint IDE/ATA controllers. The Rocket 100 card is fairly inexpensive...$25 at Newegg. So it is a very logical choice for getting around the BIOS bugs and IDE/ATA addressing limitations of older motherboards in order to support the PATA drives available today; the smallest drive available at Newegg today is 40GB. Being able to support modern IDE/ATA drives in older systems/motherboards can significantly extend the potential lifetime of a PC. My personal experience is that hard drives and power supplies are the most vulnerable parts of a PC and are most likely to fail. And given the insatiable appetite of multimedia applications to consume hard drive space; the need for very large drives is everywhere. I also think that Linux, especially openSUSE is also key in extending the lifetimes of older PCs as it is, as of yet, not nearly as bloated as Microsoft VISTA which is both a memory, processor and graphics HOG. Personally, I gave up on trying to get the use of all of my 320GB hard drive in the system with the P3V4X motherboard. I settled for 128GB which is the LBA (28 bit) limit of the BIOS. So I have openSUSE 10.2 with LILO (GRUB can't handle the motherboard either) with the drive attached and installed on the Primary/Master controller slot. It works just great and I can now, after wasting weeks of effort, move on to actually making the system useable as a PC and not a useless door stop. Also, while I am very interesting in helping to figure out what is wrong with the hpt366 driver, which by-the-way has a just horrible quality reputation across the linux/web world, I also think I am just becoming a middle-person in the pursuit of a solution. So I would like to make this offer. I will send my brand new Highpoint Rocket 100 PCI ATA 100 controller card to you at my expense. You may permanently keep it -- both for finding out what is wrong with the hpt366 driver and for future testing so that some innocent change doesn't break it later on. If you think that this makes the best sense, please send me a mailing address and I will send it right along. Along with the hope, that some time in the near future, there will be a high-quality hpt366 driver in existence. Sincerely, Jon PS I really appreciated your more complete description of the driver and how it fits in. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.