Ken, and my admission:
Thanks for setting me straight, I was sorta aware of things and I was
blindly striking out about that PPro thing because I had bad memories
about that due to iffy chipset issues and poor 16bit performance.
Let me clarify bit better this time, early chipsets by intel didn't
have functioning busmastering IDE. Seamless operation seems to be
PCI SCSI card (wide or better) or a decent IDE card that supports
UDMA features but not those buggy CMD or it's like types.
When used properly, PPro is nice.
Let's rest that case for now.
Cheers,
Wizard