Acard ATA133 supported? and Sonnet Tempo ATA133?

[Kevin B. Hendricks]

Hi,

In response to both of these queries.

I bought the Sonnet Tempo ATA 133 first and I could not get it to work 
reliably over ATA-33 speed (not 66, not 100, not 133) even with the right 
cable and drive.  

The 2.4 kernel driver for the Sonnet ATA-133 is actually the Promise 20268 
driver and it has had lots of trouble in the past.  Ben Herrenschmidt 
(what would we do without him!) ran into similar difficulties when he did 
his Xserve port (since it used Promise on-board controllers) and he 
finally was able to fix the driver I belive.  So the only kernel that 
probably has those fixes in place is Ben's kernel.  Please check with him 
as to the real status.

Before Ben fixed it, I gave up on the card and bought an ACard ATA 133 and 
it was properly recognized and worked flawlessly by the aec driver in the 
2.4 kernel.

That card is a none good card (works under MacOSX as well!).

Hope this helps,

Kevin