More than likely it has a VIA 686A chipset or the AMD 756 chipset - eithe
r of which are supported by the UDMA patch that you can get from
kernel.org.  The BIOS is another matter - if it doesn't report things
nicely - you may have to use hdparm to force the use of DMA.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> 	people on the list have said good things about Tyan mobos, and
> I see that they have a K7 board now.
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityk7.html
> 
> how well-supported are the IDE controller and sound chipset under
> Linux? I see that it comes with a 'driver disk'; which immediately
> makes me suspicious (since they probably aren't anything but Windows
> drivers...)
> 
> I'm not necessarily going to run Linux on one of these things (I'm
> actually looking for a win98 setup here at work); but I'd like to look
> at the possibility down the road.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom
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