Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying chips

2001-05-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason yes... but most people that build hardware learned long ago to put the "wire to enable" the expensive feature into the packaging process... jumper pin# 234 to grn or not inside the plastic - NOT on the pc board - the flash can be identical in both products...

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-10 Thread Jason Pepas
> my silly thinking says... > > one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller > by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors it is a fairly well documented fact that you can. Think of it this way: A company has to produce two products: - an IDE controller - an IDE RAID co

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike i bet the flash bios you get is pre-release alpha/beta that is NOT available on the real FastTrack raid controllers ?? or its the older version compared to the fasttrack ?? - they're probably keeping track of who downloaded it and who sends in problems/bug reports and check for co

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:13:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or > its temporary space can retain the fact that it did > complete flushing data to disk and the mirror... > > guess that should work... but ... why do all that > when for $1

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or its temporary space can retain the fact that it did complete flushing data to disk and the mirror... guess that should work... but ... why do all that when for $10 or $50 more you can get a real hw raid controller and if it dont work ( you

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:39:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya jason > > my silly thinking says... > > one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller > by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors > > -- write large file, largefoo.txt to the 'disK' As I recall, you

Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

2001-05-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason my silly thinking says... one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors -- write large file, largefoo.txt to the 'disK' and while it is writing it to the mirror/raid..be nice and do a proper shut down of the s