Thanks very much, Jon, I'll try it ASAP. On Wednesday 06 February 2002 19:04, Jon Biddell wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:13, Matt T. wrote: [...] I got it from Promise tech Support - but I haven't used it, as a new 7.3 install seems to support it natively.
I guess you are just using the additional IDE ports and not any RAID functionality? If this is the case, you do not need the promise drivers, because the promise bios on the card will install its own IDE UltraDMA BIOS, any OS you run on the box should just see the additional IDE ports. BTW, if someone has a double boot with windows, and installs the promise RAID drivers there, be aware that you cannot deinstall them from windows. Whatever you do, they will be loaded, and if you delete them, windows demands to reinstall them and does not free the ports as additional IDE ports. In Linux you just change 2 conf files and run lilo, however windows you need to delete and do a new install, just to switch back from RAID to IDE... Thanks again, Matt