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RE: [OT] Promise IDE Card
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- Subject: RE: [OT] Promise IDE Card
- From: "Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 01:02:27 -0000
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Booth [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
>I gave up in disgust with the HPT366 on my BP6 board in my
>Server box. Bunged in a Promise card and other than the system
>not booting up the first time anymore (I have to turn the box off
>[hold-hold-hold the power button] and then shortly back on again)
>it's worked perfectly.
Been there, seen that ;)
>I'd probably try an unbranded one next time to see if that initial turn
>on problem is a Promise induced error.
It is, and is fixed in the latest BIOS versions for the Ultra66, Ultra100
and Ultra100TX2
Cards
>A friend had terrible grief with lost partition table information and
>such like with a later Highpoint controller. I believe he too went out
>and bought a Promise controller and hasn't mentioned it since.
>Thus...
>
>> My only thing would be: make sure the value controllers are not
using
>> Highpoint Chipsets, as these are the problem
>
>...I can only agree.
Yep, My friends in IT all have Horror stories of HiPoint Controllers
causing
Data Loss.
Ian.
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