In the hour of 12:01 AM 8/28/2002 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke this: >One thing that I noticed with the Promise card was the LONG time it >seemed, when you were booting the whole system, for the Promise card to >finally display a message of what was attached to the card, or if >nothing was attached to the card. Again, this seems to be a factor of >the scsi bios on the Promise card, its initialization and then >communicating with the bios you find on PC motherboards it would seem. > >Ralph
Ralph, I found a similar slow start with an onboard scsi controller in a Proliant server. Another alternative for the future is to buy a motherboard with raid built in to take advantage of the extra IDE ports. One friend who did use a Promise card previously bought an ABIT raid board (BD7II Raid) http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/pt_main_back.jsp?pPRODUCT_TYPE=MotherBoard&pMODEL_NAME=BD7II-RAID and she is much happier with the new setup over the use of the Promise card. Or if more speed is the optimum decision then wait for the vendors to support serial ATA, some have begun like ABIT with their IT7-Max 2 http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/pt_main_back.jsp?pPRODUCT_TYPE=MotherBoard&pMODEL_NAME=IT7-MAX2 Mind you, the new boards have almost completely removed all legacy ports from their design. Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
