From: zylantha@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Denis Cheong) Subject: Re: VLB IDE controller cards? Date: 29 Sep 1993 14:46:10 GMT
carsten (bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: My Boca IDE Plus controller card has just failed under warranty :) and
: I would like to look into replacing it with a local-bus equivalent,
: in the same price range, ie CAN$50-75 or not too much more. Does
: anyone have any experience with any such beast? Can anyone recommend
: anything? Bear in mind that I am a student running _deep_ in the red,
: and no matter how nice a card costing only $200 is, I will probably not
: be able to afford it. Tell me about them anyway, though, no reason not
: to drool :) .
: If anyone has experience in the matter, I _must_ get a card which works
: in both linux and OS/2, so one which doesn't require a driver, or is
: completely standard is needed.
The discussion lately has been about the Promise Technologies card
(PT-2033). They apparently promised drivers for OS/2 by the end of
October. Without the device driver or the on-board BIOS the card
performs just like a normal IDE card (16-bit). With it I have seen
transfer rates at 4MB/sec, without just standard 1MB/sec. I did have a
problem with it working in an early VLB machine though.
I am running it under OS/2 2.1 with no problems, except that it is
operating in straight 16-bit mode; just waiting for the drivers to run
it in 32-bit mode.
Hope this helps
Denis.
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