Re: [OFFTOPIC] IDE maintainer?

Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 01:28:12 -0400


In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981011025324.3574A-100000@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu>,
"Andre M. Hedrick" writes:

> My speciality wrt to IDE was making off-board UDMA cards
> functional/bootable. Since all SMP PPros and P5 mainboards that I know
> of are limited to DMA mode 2, I needed direct UDMA support and upgradablity.
> Thus a need, an action taken.

Not quite. My dual PPro system boots up identifying mode 4 IDE
drives just fine, and runs them just fine.

I've removed the IDE drive (it was just temporay space) since my
system is mostly SCSI.

My motherboard is a Micronics W6-Li with the latest BIOS.

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