On 1/10/06, Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A company I previously worked for had two models of a card that were > exactly identical except for the exterior markings and the contents of a > PROM that was on the card.
Promise Tech has a few "RAID" cards that do just that. (RAID in quotes because the cards are really just regular IDE adapters with the RAID done in the driver on the host.) The problem is that the user community discovered this and figured out how to hack the driver to give you the "RAID" functionality on the "ordinary adapter" cards. (I'm sure the industry is looking to make that kind of thing illegal and punishable by death or something.) On a related note: The difference between some current Intel Pentium and the Celeron chips is that the Celerons have half the cache of the Pentium's. Except they're actually the same chip; Intel just disables half the onboard cache as part of the "manufacturing process" for the Celerons. I'm told they use a laser to burn out a single connection on the die. It's a strange world we live in. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
