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do you own IDE controller?
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Sun Jun 01, 2003 2:58 pmby jtan
hi there,
is it worth it to have one? i'm running out of IDE channels... IDE channel 1 have two 80gb HD, IDE channel 2 have DVD writer and DVD-ROM, I want to hook back my Lite-On LTR48125W so i can use it instead of using my DVD writer to burn CD-Rs.. any suggestion?
Posted:
Sun Jun 01, 2003 3:26 pmby cfitz
Here are some choices:
Promise:
Ultra66 - $23
Ultra100 - $29
Ultra133 - $34
Siig:
Ultra66 - $21
Ultra100 - $28
Ultra133 - $38
Get one suitable for your hard drives, and then put the hard drives on it, leaving the optical drives attached to the mother-board's controller.
cfitz
Posted:
Sun Jun 01, 2003 4:14 pmby MonteLDS
i own a promise controler card, ata100, i never use it though
I got a board with RAID and said forget it
Posted:
Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:01 pmby lightningbaron
I have used controllers by Promise.
In one of my PCs, I moved my hard drives to the Promise IDE controller and leave my optical drives to the onboard IDE controllers.
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Sun Jun 01, 2003 10:27 pmby eliminator
Promise rules ! ... got 2 100ATA, no probs.
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:32 amby Action Jackson
I've got 2 Tx2's by Promise.
One is ATA100, the other is ATA133.
No problems.
Posted:
Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:55 amby eliminator
yup - mine is TX2 !
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:45 pmby jtan
is ATA100 ultradma 6? or is it ATA133?
Posted:
Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:49 pmby cfitz
5 = 100
6 = 133
cfitz
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Mon Jun 02, 2003 6:01 pmby socheat
I have onboard raid and a Promise 133tx2 card. I use the regular IDE channels to run my dvd drive and burner, and the onboard raid and promise card to run my raid5.
Socheat