It just occurred to me that since all of these boards use the same controller chip, Promise has probably reduced the visible flash ROM size to 16KB somehow (SMT resistors?). Any thoughts?
Uh, they probably installed a smaller capacity flash chip on that run of cards. It's pretty common. For example, the only difference (the *only* difference) in the hardware between an Adaptec 2940UW for the PC and a PowerDomain 2940UW is the capacity of the flash chip.
Flash chips are sold by their capacity in kilobits or megabits, not in kilobytes or megabytes, for some reason. So a 64 KB flash is a 512 Kb flash chip. I saw a lot of 600+ of those go on Ebay the other day for about $175. True, $200 is kind of steep to modify a EIDE card, but the unit price works out nicely....
Jeff Walther
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