Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:04:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:

> > > I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2.
> > > The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal
> > > experience with it.  (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133
> > > should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100
> > > needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.)
> > 
> > My copy of Ultra100 TX2 handles such larger disks out of the box pretty well.
> It is probably the case that older Ultra100-TX2 units needed the firmware
> update, while those manufactured at a later date shipped with the newer
> firmware already installed. 

Yes :-) My controlled had firmware version newer that on-site one when it came.

Eugene Grosbein