>Hi,
>
>From: CaptnZilog@aol.com
>Subject: ATA drive on Q630
>Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:00:48 EST
>Message-ID: <e1.110db9b5.27d147e5@aol.com>
>
>CaptnZilog> I'm looking at getting a *large* drive for my Q630, to 
>make my new development machine (currently using a IIsi, 2GB 
>SCSI)...  and, of course, this happens to be an ATA based machine.
>
>ATA drive is not supported in -current.
>
>CaptnZilog> Staying away from ATA/100 drives, I found a Seagate 
>Barracuda ATA/66 drive in the $125 range (damn, drives have gotten 
>cheap!) which is 30GB.  What problems, other than the installer 
>maybe glitching on large partitions, can I expect with this?  I'd 
>presume from the age of the machine that the PROM code can't handle 
>LBA mode, but could probably boot off of a small Mac/OS partition at 
>the beginning of the drive... 
>CaptnZilog>
>CaptnZilog> Suggestions?  Thoughts?  Comments?
>
>If you are going to try, shall I put a test kernel and a test
>install kernel within ATA support on somewhere?
>
>Takeshi Shibagaki
>ie9t-sbgk@asahi-net.or.jp

First question here is there hardware support on the Q630 for ATA? 
If there isn't then kernel support is irrelevant correct?
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