Whats the word on nVidias IDE driver??

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Buzz
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Whats the word on nVidias IDE driver??

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I'm putting up a A64 box here... rnning SATA drives :)

Installing nVidias software thingy lets me choose to install IDE driver or not... what to do?? :p
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Probably means nvidia's custom SWide drivers, some like them some don't. I haven't played with them for a while, I don't really know what the current verdict is. I know that they make your ide devices show up as scsi in the device manager, makes some burning/disk programs go crazy. If you are booting from your sata drive you might as well skip them- any performance you might gain would probably be unnoticed since you are booting from a drive on a different controller.
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