RE:

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I have been trying to get hold of info from my MBoard manufacturers
(Gigabyte) as they have the Promise IDE controllers on the board to see if
they will be supporting UDMA133. If they don't then it's going to have to
be
another controller card (shame).

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mick Furlong [mailto:dorsai@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 October 2001 13:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d]
>
>
> Anyone seen this shipping in the UK yet? Damn no Raid from what I
> can see :(
>
> Mick
>
> Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Promise are producing a 'plug in' ata 133 controller, for more
info goto
> >
> > www.promise.com
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Mick Furlong wrote:
> >
> > > Noticed this a while back just one thing to be wary of this
> is a UIDE133
> disc
> > > and that 'standard' is only currently suppported by some of
the
> > > manufacturers. As I understand it you need a motherboard
with
> a different
> > > southbridge chip to support uide133 and I haven't seen any
advertised,
> > > alternatively you could use a uide133 controller but again I
> havent seen
> any
> > > out there. The main limitation is on the addressing of the
> space (I think
> > > current systems top out at 137GB address space or something
> like that)and
> > > many manufacturers aren't supporting uide133 but will go
straight to
> serial
> > > ATA discs.
> > >
> > > All of the above is from memory so probably contains factual
> errors but if
> > > you want the real info look on toms hardware.
> > >
> > > Apart from that I want 4 of these in a raid array!!!!
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Mick
> > >
> > >
> > >  James Hoye <james.hoye@xxxxxxx> said:
> > >
> > > > Just noticed that ebuyer.com have a Maxtor 160GB disc
(5400
> rpm, 12ms)
> for
> > > > £208.86
> > > > QuickFind code:27553
> > > >
> > > > Many an hour of MP3 or Divx...
> > > >
> > > > James H
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
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