Saturday, August 30, 2003 @ 10:52:36 AM Central Standard Time Hi. Can anyone recommend an ATA133 controller (pci) card that is friendly with Slackware. I have an old HP Pent 200 w/64M of "Core" I would like to make into a Bad Ass File Server(more commonly referred to as "BAFS")using Slackware. I have(had I should really say) a couple El-Cheap-O ata133 cards I have tried. Mission Failure with each one. One came in a box simply labelled "Made in Chi-Wan", that I scored at a swap meat/junk show for $15.00USD. This one failed with Slack. I used it in a M$ box for awhile. One evening the card failed in the M$ box, data was lost, and I was sent into (music please...DA...da...DA...da...) "COMPUTER RAGE!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh"(foaming @ the mouth now...shaking violently). To make a long story short, the card simply labeled "Made in Chi-Wan" became an Unidentified Flying Object aka UFO (through the winter skies of North-East Minneapolis), and now no longer I/O's among the Land of the Living. Please refer to your local libraries Microfiche Department to see articles regarding the UFO incident, number of sighting, Po-Leece Department reports, etc...Feb 2003) The other card I purchased for $19.99USD (I gave them the remaining penny as a token of my gratitude) @ a place that has since gone out of business named "Computer Cheap-O". I could not get it to work with Slack. It now resides in the M$ box mentioned earlier. After my first interview for the ata133-pci position I had available, I mentioned the fate my last card. The El Cheap-O's lip began to shake slightly as I locked the door & grabbed my hand axe. "I often use this hatchet for hacking out problems with software & or hardware that cause problems, or become uncooperative with others" I explained to the card swinging & flip & tossing & catching the axe in ways that would make any martial arts master envious. After a cool stare down (the poor computer cheap-o's lip still twitching), a large - slowly welling-up, flowing tear, began to drip down the left cheek of the card. I handed Computer Cheap-O ata133 pci my pen. ATA133 was visibly shaking, the contract was signed, and it has been I/Oing for me happily now for a few months. I understand that the mention of "M$" probably piss's a lot of you off. I know. Please, let me explain. About two - three years ago, I had around 8 - 12 servers running (all NT or 2K). Now my fleet consist's of all Linux servers (mostly Slack, 1 Debian, & 1 FreeBSD - if that counts). Their is only 1 box left running 2K. As soon as I can get an ata133 card that I can config to use with Slack, and a grip of new BAMF-IDE Hard Drives, I will be able to remove M$ entirely from my world. Free at last. Save your Drama for your Mama. I (on hand and knee, doing my best Captain Kirk impression) Plead to the Jedi's of the Linux ways, to please help recommend an ata133 pci (or even just a friendly chipset) card I can use with Slack (or any other distro, I don't care, I am open to checking them all, but slack will always be the one I love the most) To build a BAFS (lvm in full-effect) of extra ordinary magnitude, to help remove the evil one, the wicked M$-2()()() server, that resides within my happy-friendly Ghetto_Net-Style (more commonly referred to as GNS technology((RFC # still pending))) LAN (Little Ass Network). You all have my Gratitude. Bowing, I take 3 steps back, about face, and march out the door. Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars West Longitude 90' 15' 43" http://b-o-b.homelinux.com mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list