[geeks] Anyone use this SATA controller in a PC

[kevin at pipeline.com]

Back in those days i believe that they really made some solid hardware.  It's a shame if the quality really has fallen down over the years.

/KRM


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:24:04AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> kevin at pipeline.com wrote:
> >I haven't touched a Promise card in years, but the last one i had (circa 
> >1994) was a VLbus caching controller that you had to add your own 30 pin 
> >SIMMS too.  I *LOVED* that card and had great results with it for several 
> >years.  It's still around here somewhere, just couldn't bring my self to 
> >toss it out.
> 
> I had a caching EISA IDE controller from about the same period.  It was 
> an engineering prototype, if I remember correctly.  With 4MB of cache 
> RAM and four 230MB disks connected and spanned into two 460MB volumes, 
> it was blindingly fast.
> 
> 
> 
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