Re: the ATA-66 support issue ;)

[Jim Breton]

On 22 Jan 2000, david parsons wrote:

> >Looking at the Slot A motherboards from Asus, FIC, and Gigabyte, I want
> >to make sure I will be able to see my disks.
> 
>      The ASUS and FIC motherboards recognise EIDE disks properly even if
>      the disks are /66 and the kernel isn't doing /66.   One of my K7s
>      uses a FIC won'trecognisemyIBMkeyboard motherboard and one K7 I
>      built for a client uses the ASUS one ; both of them are running with
>      EIDE drives on Linux 2.0.28+logo (bog-standard in the IDE department
>      except for the addition of a VIA ide dma driver) without any trouble
>      seeing their boot devices.

So if I use the Asus or FIC board with a stock kernel (2.2.14 etc.) I
should be able to see all my disks, no matter whether they are 33 or 66?

Also is there any appreciable performance or quality difference amongst
these boards?  I know Asus boards in general have a good reputation and my
Socket 7 Asus boards have been excellent, but the FIC boards appear to be
a good deal cheaper... OTOH I've never heard of them.  :P

Thanks.  :)