Ultra ATA 133 PCI Controller

[strudl]

Hello,
I have redhat 7.3 running on my computer, I have need for a PCI Card to connect additional hard drives, can anyone please recommend one that has a driver for for Linux and is no hassle to work with it ?
Thanks.

[trouble.ted]

First download SuSE Linux 8.1 then install, oh and make sure you get rid of RH7.3 or atleast update to RH9:D

[mmills]

now is this 7.3 unleashed? what kernel is that?
If you like redhat so much you can download the new version for free, you shouldnt have any driver problems with 9.0, 7.3 was directed around ata 33/66. I would suggest updating your linux.

just a thought.

:D

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

But, what if strudl has an application which requires Red Hat 7.3? The better thing is just to answer his question directly, not suggest a software upgrade straight-out.

Most any PCI IDE controller should be supported as a regular IDE chipset. It should be detected by the kernel at boot time, just as if you had 4 IDE channels on your motherboard. But, like mmills suggested, it may not run at ATA/133 speeds-- I don't know whether or not the kernel that shipped with 7.3 supported ATA/133. I'd imagine it would, though-- I think it was version 2.4.3 or 2.4.5 or something. That should be recent enough to support ATA/133.

If it turns out that the kernel can support ATA/133, I suggest checking out the manual page for hdparm to tune the parameters of the hard drives and enable ATA/133 operation.

[hardcore]

I think ATA100 might be supported by that kernel, but I'm sure it doesn't support ATA133 unless they backported it to that kernel release.