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Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
It is really not Promise's fault that OSes like WindowsNT or Linux defeat the marvellous PnP concept by ignoring the driver and complaining that they cannot access the drive they have just booted from. :-)
I don't recall having any issues with a promise drive in linux. Maybe I got lucky.
Well, I did not have any problems installing my Promise Ultra133 TX2 card - in DOS, that is. The problems started when I tried to boot DOSLinux for the first time after the upgrade and found that it no longer worked, since it did not recognize the IDE chipset of the card. So I had to deinstall the card again, compile a new kernel, install the card again, and - nothing. The v2.2 kernel did not have a driver for that card, so I had to use an experimental pre-release version of the v2.4 kernel. So I deinstalled the card again, compiled Linux, installed the card again, and it still did *not* work! So I deinstalled the card again, compiled the kernel with the "boot off-board chipsets first" option, or whatever it is called, installed the card again, and finally, after having ripped out and reinstalled the card three(!) times, Linux booted. IIRC, I also had to pass a special option "ide=reverse" to the kernel. Only problem was that the CD-ROM drives no longer worked since they had been assigned a different device name; I had to fiddle with the configuration again to remedy this. I also read the lengthy instructions for installing it in Windows NT, so perhaps you can understand why the notion that WinNT or Linux are PnP OSes makes me laugh. Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --
