The Promise UATA card is an IDE controller card, but NOT supported by the Linux kernel.
Think of it as a SCSI Card (I know IDE isn't SCSI, but bear with me), the promise card responds to a slightly different command set, so you need support for it in the kernel. To make your system work with Linux, you need to take out the Promise UATA card, and plug the IDE Cables from your hard drive(s) into the motherboard IDE port (Triton IDE Controllers, which the kernel supports). You may have to enable them again in the CMOS Setup. You probably will not notice a difference in performance, even when using Win 95/NT. the 33MB/sec is a 'theoretical' maximum for UATA (so they could advertise it and compete with SCSI), however, the bottleneck is at the hard drive. For random seeks and short reads, there is no (or minimal) difference between having the hard drive plugged into the Promise UATA card and the IDE controllers on the motherboard. There is no other solution. The Promise card does have some cache on it, and it _is_ UATA, but it doesn't matter when it is plugged into a 5400 RPM IDE Drive. For speed you need a Seagate Barracuda or Cheeta hooked up with an Adaptec 2940 Card. If you are within 30 days of purchase, I would recommend upgrading to the SCSI option if you are interested in performance (especially in Linux). Hope this helps, troy > William Aycock wrote: > > I am having problems getting the CD to recognize my hard drive. > When I get to this section to partition my drive "No drive found" > is returned. I have a drive already partitioned with 1 GB assigned > to drive D. > > I have a Gateway pentium II with an Ultra ATA bus controller. > Through a little research I found this to be a Promise Technology > PCI controller card. I believe the Ultra ATA is the same protocol > as IDE. > > ----------- > William and Charis Aycock > 3209 Harper's Ferry Court > Orlando, FL 32837 > (407) 857-8137 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
