Re: Promise Controller and milo.

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 12:37 PM 1/4/00 +0000, Nikolaos Ntarmos. 
Where you stated:

> Hello everyone and a happy new year.
>
> I am considering buying an Ultra 66 controller made by Promise. Does 
> anyone out
> there know if there is any way i can work milo and alphabios into seeing my
> disk drives? I have already compiled PDC and "Boot off-board chips first"
> support into the kernel. I have an SX and Quantum 6.4EX, running RedHat 
> 6.0 and
> kernel version 2.2.14pre9. I could always buy a smaller drive, attach it 
> to the
> on-board cotrnoller and boot of from there, but this is not a very appealing
> solution.
>
> I will go out for shopping by friday, january 4th, so i would appreciate it if
> you could answer before then.
Hi Nick.
I don't use one myself, but I can comment that some people I know who have 
purchased these are less than dazzled by the performance so far of this card.


Best regards,

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