[geeks] Anyone use this SATA controller in a PC

[Phil Stracchino]

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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