Posted by AZ Nomad on 07/13/06 23:35

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:25:28 -0600, Dan G <none@12345.org> wrote:


>PATA controller cards are notorious for not supporting ATAPI devices, very
>few of them do. Promise and Highpoint cards will run the burner in PIO in
>spite of showing it as DMA, and this is not good.

Must be some windows thing. I run linux and I've used promise, highpoint,
and silicon image with cdrws and dvdrw and they all worked perfectly using
DMA66. I've experienced linux software raid not working so well with plugin
PATA cards and hard drives, but that's another story.

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