On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 18:20, Christopher D. Reimer wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > > > Is this card generally well supported in the 2.4 range kernels and are > > > there any things in particular that I have to look out for while taking > > > on this endeavour. > > > > according to the suse hardware database it is fully supported > > Only if use the SuSE kernal that it's fully supported. Trying to patch a > vanilla 2.4.x kernel with the Tekram patch was a nightmare the last time > that I tried. (That might've changed since I was using the 2.4.1 > kernel.) All the machines that I have the 315U controller card in has a > SuSE kernel, and the card has worked flawlessly. > > Christopher Reimer >
I read somewhere that this card was perfect for cdrw's. Does it work fine with hdd's - is the performance faster than ide for hdd with this card ? Also, how difficult is it to fit more than 4 hard disks on a regular at tower case ? any ideas ? Thanx Shri
