Re: Recommendations for an IDE controller card

[Bob Marcan <bob marcan interstudio homeunix net>]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 19:20, Max Pyziur wrote:
> > Per the subject line, any recommendations?
> >
> > I have a box running FC2 (he says redfaced) which I want to expand to be a
> > JABOD (just a bunch of disks). So something which can work w/ hardware
> > circa 2004.
> >
> > Max Pyziur
> > pyz brama com
>
> I'm still running FC2 on my old Gateway 500, so don't feel bad. I do have 
> later distros on it as well, FC3,5, and 6, and also FC1,which I think still 
> works well. The hardware is about circa 1999.
>
> 2 harddrives on ide0, 2 optical drives (cdrom, cdwriter) on ide1, and an IDE 
> PCI adaptor card, which has one harddrive on channel 1, and a DVD rom drive 
> on channel 2.
>
> I don't know if the card is still available as I bought them in 2004 ( I have 
> a spare), but here are the details.
>
> It's an MRI-PCI/A133  (Microcomputer Research (UK) Ltd). See.
> http://www.mri.co.uk
>
> The card works fine. The only problem I have is that I can't boot DVD's from 
> it, but that's no problem, as I prefer booting using CDroms for new installs. 
> Once the machine is booted there is no problem playing DVD's though.
>
> All the best.
>
> Nigel.

I'm using on Intel D845GBV mobo (FC4):
lspci -v | grep Promise
02:01.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02) 
(prog-if 85)
        Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra133TX2
02:03.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02) 
(prog-if 85)
        Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra133TX

No problems few years.

Regards, Bob
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