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From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To: mestery@cobber.cord.edu (Kyle Mestery)
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Subject: Re: Status of (E)IDE drives 
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Hi,

> 
> Hi.  I was wondering what the current status of EIDE
> drives is with the smp kernel.  I have just purchased
> a Tyan Tomcat II motherboard, and I am about to purchase
> a disk for it, and if (for the time being) I couild save
> money and by a EIDE drive, it would be ghood! =)

my belief is that they work if options APIC_IO and SMP_INVLTLB are both set.
can users confirm this?

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