Re: Promise caching IDE

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From: Richard Lamont
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 00:00

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In article <01bd805a$0dc10f10$0100b51f@dbqa>,
	"Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Linux won't talk to my Promise caching IDE controller (VLB) that I just got
> to upgrade my main Linux box.  I have put 4Mb of RAM on it and it works
> fine in Win95 with no modifications.

If it is the DC4030 VLB, then:

(a) the main IDE driver doesn't like it. You will need to compile
a kernel with the "old" IDE driver instead.
(b) there is little point in using a cacheing disk controller with
Linux. It is much more cost effective to add memory to the
motherboard, because the kernel uses spare memory for disc
cacheing anyway.

In the end I threw my DC4030 VLB out, and replaced it with a
GBP 10 generic VLB controller.

These comments all relate to the situation as it was until about
a year ago, when I got a new box. 

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Date: 1998/05/16
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