On Wednesday 24 November 2004 05:48, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Use SATA on a new motherboard if you have it. SATA offers higher > > > throughput, the cables are far smaller, and on the better motherboards > > That sounds like last-resort stuff to me > > Hallelujah! Sounds like an idea whose time has come. Seagate and > > I don't particularly want to spend $400 on new drives and a controller > card just because I got suckered into a new kernel which doesn't work > with my system. > > Is there any way to use a 2.4 kernel on Fedora Core 3? I've just checked this thread in the archives because I don't have the start of it. I don't see what hardware you're using. On another box I have hda a 120 GBA ATA drive, hdb a DVD burner and on the second controller I have a disk caddy which atm has a 120 Gb drive in it. All drives are jumpered master-slave. I also have provision for another four drives with a hotrod66; atm there is nothing connected. The box is running Debian/Sarge - alternately 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I've had no problems using drives in any combination with any kernel. The mobo is a cheap Gigabyte with a SiS chipset, GA-7S748-L. -- Cheers John
