I bought one of those Maxtor drives with the included Promise card at
Circuit City several years ago. The card worked well in XP and even
though its sitting in my "junk drawer" probably still works fine. Don't
know about Vista though haven't gone to their website since I originally
downloaded the last BIOS and drivers.
Rick Glazier wrote:
During the BIOS size support transition period, in reference to HDs,
Maxtor packaged a re-badged Promise UATA card with their
HDs for free (or Free AMIR) to help keep people buying HDs.
(Later they sold them.)
How would you like to get a nice new HD and find out you could
not use it unless you were forced into the less desirable DDO
software translation smoke and mirrors crap.
(Which BTW, you could try and see it you like it and the limitations
and service problems it adds to a system.)
Hope this helps. Rick Glazier
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From: "DHSinclair"
Am I missing something here. Can you explain the "Maxtor branded
Promise..." business?
