On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:35:19PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > - Debian 3.0 doesn't support much of the hardware curently available - > > the old 2.4.18 kernel on the boot floppies doesn't even boot on many > > new computers (some Promise IDE chipsets require a more recent 2.4 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > kernel), and much hardware from nearly all currently abailable > ^^^^^^ > > This is false. All the promise IDE chipsets are adequetely supported > by 2.4.18, albeit not in anything above ata-33 mode. The only problem > is that autodetection fails for some of the newer ones, and you have > to manually specify the controller ports.
That's false. They're not even adequately supported in 2.4.22, but they're better. I still can't use my Promise drive in DMA mode (must use -d 0 with hdparm) because heavy write activity causes the kernel to hang.
