Promise Ultra 66 Drivers Update FYI

[Slikkster]

For anyone with a Promise Ultra 66 (or 100) Controller, you'll want to know that their updated drivers now appear as Promise Ultra 100 drivers on their driver update page(s).

I emailed Promise Tech Support and they verified that the drivers for these controllers are now the same; not unlike Nvidia's unified drivers for their video cards. They refer to it as a driver "family".

After installing the drivers, my card now shows up as a Promise Ultra 100 Controller in Win2K and Win98, although the bios is still a Promise Ultra 66.

My question is that since the controller now appears in Device Manager as a Promise Ultra 100 Controller (since the driver *.inf files make no reference to Ultra 66, only Ultra 100), I'm wondering whether it can be bios flashed to an actual Promise Ultra 100 vs. the 66. Anyone try this? Or is it a built-in chipset difference? I haven't noticed any real difference with the new drivers, by the way.

Promise Ultra 66/100 Driver Updates

 

[fargus]

Thanks for the information... it would indeed be nice if we could convert them from 66 to 100... thought I had seen some sort of hack for that a while back but can't find it now... there is a hack to convert the Ultra to a Fasttrack RAID controller, so it may be possible...

 

[BadThad]

The hack for conversion to RAID is HERE. I've done this mod and it works perfectly. I'm not sure if you can convert an ATA66 to an ATA100 or not. Post a message on their message board and see what they say.