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http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimavns.431 and confvns.431
Supports PCI IDE controllers Nvidia Nforce, SiS and VIA (the latter two 
also supported by vps kernel along with Promise, and none of these three 
worked as modules).

An Emachine worked with the amd74xx.o nforce PCI IDE module (it went from 
3.5 to 6.8 MB/sec transfer speed) but the module would not work in an EPOX 
board (both about 1.8GHz cpus) due to unresolved symbols.  Built into the 
kernel, it works, and runs the drives at full speed not 6.8MB/sec 
(20MB/sec for a UDMA-2 IDE drive).

I also provide forcedeth.o for the Nvidia network chip, but don't know 
what audio these boards use.  It was supposed to be i810_audio.o, which 
does not work here.  It does work with the ECS boards.

I got tired of booting the ECS with lilo boot floppy so tackled this EPOX 
board instead.  The EPOX is now working except for USB (after replacing 14 
leaky capacitors it passes memtest) though it crashes almost immediately 
in Win98 or XP.  What is linux doing better?

How do I make a lilo boot floppy disk choose between DOS and linux?

Sindi

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org