$12 raid card

[Pongpan]

Compgeeks has Promise UDMA66 controller card for $11.50.

You can turn this card into a RAID controler using the modifcation
techniques found HERE.

 

[OS]

I wonder what it feels like to be someone who actually paid full price for real fasttrak 66.

 

[diem]

OK, possibly an ignorant question, try to over look it and tell me where I get one of the resistors? and a lv soldering iron?

 

[Raj]

you can find resistors and soldering irons at radio shack.
thats where I got mine.

 

[Souka]

Shipping info

$8 for Second Day Air or Three Day Select
$6 for Ground (UPS)
$21 for Next Day Air


Guess they don't use USPS Priority Mail...with Insurance, under $4.

 

[HigherGround]

the topic is missleading...it's a regular U66 adapter that you can turn into a RAID0/1 controller. on the same token, i don't see people advartising GeForce 2 Quadro for $XXX with link to GTS and instructions how to turn GTS into Quadro.

 

[mascabre]

Ok how can I turn a Geforce into a quadro????


I would seriously like to know, this is the sort of thing I would expect to see on toms site..

 

[DealyDo]

To make a quadro, glue two GTS 2 together, stacked with IC chip facing one another with a hot glue gun. I remember seeing on Tom's Hardware site, I just can't seem to find it.

 

[SuperSix]

Never ceases to amaze me.. THey are selling a controller for $11.50 that can be modded EASILY to a $50.00 + card, and someone has to complain that they can't get it shipped for $4.00. It only costs $4.00? What about the boxes? the peanuts? the invoices? the ink? the employee boxing them up? Their $8.00 UPS shipping is very reasonable. Get a grip.

 

[jblondi]

Onvia Still has these new for 20.58 which includes a 66 cable. That is final cost, shipping is free from onvia. I just bought mine. Works great.

 

[greg]

>>Guess they don't use USPS Priority Mail...with Insurance, under $4.

USPS is not friendly to business. AT ALL. UPS picks up. Not a big mystery.

 

[Jdog]

USPS does pickup....they go to nearly every home or office everday. They will even make special trips if you are shipping Priority Mail.

 

[jhassi]

the results from turning a Geforce/Geforce2 into a Quadro were very very small in gaming, less than %5 increase in fps. (so from 60fps you'd go to 63, oh yippy) And you have to solder all kinds of $hit to your $100-$300 video card, not worth the risk.

no, you didn't need to "glue two GTS 2 together", it was just a couple of resistors kinda deal like the Promise raid card.

 

[jhassi]

you know this might not be such a bad deal for only $17.50 total, even if you screw it up you're not out that much money.

i've never used raid before, can i partition a raid drive? I mean, when using raid, two drives would appear as one to the OS (right?), so if I make a 6 gig partition, does that mean 3 gigs is on one drive and the other 3 is on another drive?

 

[Rebels7]

To answer OuterSquare's question, real bad, I paid 69.99 for mine!!!

 

[helloedchen]

um...hope these are the older U66 cards with an older bios chip..the newer ones don't let you flash to fastrak66...

btw...you don't get a cable nor driver disk at this price.

 

[OS]

Rebels7, sorry to hear that

 

[gfgray]

GideonX, it is possible to modify ANY rev (so far) of that card.

already linked to in the original post

 

[jhassi]

i heard that too GideonX, but i read somewhere that people were successfully turning the ATA100 controllers into RAID so then I figured it was a mistake, i mean if their newest controllers are still being hacked then i'd guess all of them can still be hacked.

"30/6-2000: This new guide is an addition to the ordinary guide, and it will enable you to convent the new Rev A6 cards."

 

[helloedchen]

someone on the forums tried to flash one of the newer boards...tried 4 times and failed...couldn't flash it because the bios chip size was decreased...but of course, it could just be him

 

[helloedchen]

oops...DP

 

[zzzz]

the onvia deal is better as you can get it with a cable for $20 or so..

 

[ElectricLegs]

U66 Raid Hack <--for the RAID hack How-to...

 

[linuxboy]

GideonX, they were using a new flash program. if you use the old one, it works fine : )

 

[helloedchen]

heh..ok...