by I've just purchased a Promise DC-420 Local-bus IDE controller, and would like
to know if anyone knows of any drivers for this peripheral.
The controller should work under any OS, but the question is whether Linux can
fully utilize the controller without drivers (that is, with regards to speed
(i.e. high transfer rate on the local bus and caching)).
As far as I can tell by examining the documentation of the included drivers for
SCO/Unix and AT&T Unix, the drivers are generic with regards to the exact
version of the controller (i.e. drivers for a Promise DC-200 should also work
... hmmm ... this probably doesn't include the ISA-bus versions of the Promise
controllers), but the controller does need drivers under DOS for maximum
performance (this is the only OS covered exlicitly by the manual).
/Ulrik
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