PCI IDE Card

[Joshua R. Altemoos]

Oh.. That would not be good for me since the primary and seconardy ide
contollers haev failed and at the moment i do not have the money to buy a new
comptuer Thanks for your help

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Joshua R. Altemoos
joshua at gnu-linux.net


Quoting "Mark T. Valites" <valites at geneseo.edu>:

> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Joshua R. Altemoos wrote:
> 
> > Is there such thing as a PCI card that will replace the ide interfaces
> > on the motherboard and will wpork the same because on my pc for
> > somereason the ide contorllers on the board do not work. is there such a
> > thing were can i find it and how much
> 
> Yes, Promise makes some nice ones that play well with linux - but you may
> not be able to boot off a third or fourth ide controller though. If your
> floppy still works, a kernel on there with your root fs on a HD on the
> controller card might do the trick though.
> 
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> Mark T. Valites
> Unix Systems Analyst
> CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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