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[t-bone]

Does mandrake 8.0 support a promise ata100
controler card. If not is there a to get around this problem.

This will be my first time trying linux,and I want it to go easy as possible. ;)

[trekker]

I believe it does.

Anyway, I did a forum search and found a couple of threads that might be useful:
Thread1 (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=017833)Thread2 (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=017826)
Thread3 (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=019105)

Also, you can check out Mandrake's site for more info. They should have something on it. (Hardware Compatibility List etc)

Hope this helps :)