Stupid Promise controller on A7V133

[sharkeeper]

Why did they put this on here and not the Highpoint? Well, at least make it the same as the Fastrak100! :|

This won't support RAID1 mirror or RAID0+1!

There are NO selections for STRIPE SIZES either! Just this automatic setting of server, A/V, desktop, etc! I remember from the FT66 you could do that OR specify a stripe size!

I'm beginning to like this board, HOWEVER I wish there was a way to get full settings in the Promise BIOS.

Does anyone know what the stripe sizes translate to under the choices?

Cheers!

 

[xtreme2k]

Also, you cannot really disable it. You can disable its BIOS, but win9x/2k still detects it and requires an IRQ for it.

What I am guessing is that a REAL Promise Ultra100 Raid controller cost nearly 1/3-1/2 of the motherboard in retail. So they most 'cut' part of it down to 'reduce the cost'.

 

[sharkeeper]

<< Also, you cannot really disable it. You can disable its BIOS, but win9x/2k still detects it and requires an IRQ for it. >>



That sounds promising! I'm gonna check the BIOS with CBRom and see if the Promise BIOS is embedded within. Perhaps I can flash it to a real fastrak bios and gain more features.

Cheers!

 

[xtreme2k]

I disabled the Promise Bios inside the Award bios during bootup, since I dont need it now, and yet, win9x/2k has a (?) next to its name under device manager, yet I had to put a driver for it before it becames a 'normal' hardware in the tree.

 

[bluesky]

I heard you can use raid 1 and raid 0+1 on rev. 1.05 and you could flash bios to support them. So look around if it's true.

I like this controller much better than on Msi Turbo-R, which support raid 0, 1, 0+1, since a7v133 is much faster to boot up and I don't use raid.

 

[xtreme2k]

I dont feel like flashing the BIOS of the HDD controller.

My friend flash his HP370 PCI controller twice, twice his bios is basically 'CLEARED'.