You might want to search the archives for Civilme's (in)famous tirade against Promise and integrated Raid devices... ...which are nothing more than "hoaxes" perpetrated against unsuspecting buyers... (see his posts).
At his suggestion I tried the EXCELLENT Arco IDE raid controller. It works better than advertized and is OS transparent. They do cost though... 245.00. -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of udo rader |Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 4:46 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [expert] Is the Promise PDC20276 ATA133 RAID |controller chipsetsupported byMDK8.2 | | |hi, | |I've got a soyo k7v dragon raid plus mobo here, and "raid" |stands for this useless promise "raid"-controller. | |*Without* raid features enabled, the controller works very |fast and reliable for ATA133. But it's raid feature is |definetively not worth playing around with it (I spent too |many hours with it) unless you do really have to (e.g. you |have already set up windoze to acess drives using the |"raid"-controller).
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