Promise Ultra ATA/100 PCI Controller Card (hackable into RAID) - $6.95 plus shipping

[solo]

Hope this isn't a repost, I did do a search...

Linky-poo

Total was $15 for me shipped to Atlanta.

This is the hackable Promise card, you can turn it into a RAID 0, 1, 0+1. Flashable BIOS.

 

[upwardspiral]

already out of stock - Amazing deal though.🙁

 

[xpander]

avoid this thing if you plan on using LinUx
bad bad bad choice for me... and not a serious speed up...

 

[junthin]

Can anyone link or point me in the right direction for the hack to turn this into a RAID card? It's just a bios upgrade right? 😉

 

[solo]

"promise raid hack" on Google...

Linky-poo-poo

 

[cmv]

<< avoid this thing if you plan on using LinUx
bad bad bad choice for me... and not a serious speed up... >>


Actually if you use the kernel drivers and use it just as a regular ATA controller it works wonderfully and is well worth the cost if your onboard ATA controller is ATA/33. Don't use the drivers from Promise though...

edit: I'm talking kernel 2.4.x and it works great under FreeBSD too 🙂.

 

[xDrAGoNx]

damn... this would have been a kick butt deal, kudos to those who got one...

 

[Possum]

For anyone who's done the RAID hack to this card:

Are you able to connect drives to the IDE1 and IDE2 channels? After I did the hack (3 months ago), only drives connected to IDE1 would work. Anything connected to IDE2 will cause the card to freeze at the card's BIOS screen. So the only way I can use RAID on the card is to have both drives (for striping) on the same IDE1 channel. Would this be worse performance than having a separate drive on each of the IDE1 and IDE2 channels, as recommended by Promise in their Fastrak100 manual?

 

[Evgeny]

Possum, I've got an Ultra66 (not Ultar100) that I hacked into FastTrak66 and I have 2 drives on separate channels. Works fine in Windows with the old 1.x drivers. 2.x and Linux are another story though...

Evgeny

 

[Csium]

DAMNIT SOLO, I needed one of these for my i440BX, was planning to flop another couple HD's in it.

Excellent price, too bad its OOS.

BTW, these are system pulls if anyone cares about that.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Anyone know of another source of super cheap Promise (rebranded Promise--don't
want to mess with other chipsets) PCI IDE controllers, ATA66 or better?

System pulls are fine, of course.

Missed out on this one, unfortunately...

Kwad