I'm looking at PCI IDE cards on Ebay. I see mostly Promise and Adaptec.
I need one with a BIOS that can boot the drive connected to the card.
I've used cards from both Promise and Adaptec in the past. I think it
really depends what features you are wanting. If you just want a basic
IDE controller, then Promise cards are likely more economical. If you
want something that does hardware RAID such that the OS only sees the
logical RAID drive, then Adaptec is probably the way to go.
Some cards worked best with the onboard IDE channels disabled and
re-using those addresses. Others could work in tandem with them.
It really depends on what your use case is.
I'm looking at PCI IDE cards on Ebay. I see mostly Promise and Adaptec.
I need one with a BIOS that can boot the drive connected to the card.
Any recommendation?
I'm looking at Adaptec ASH-1233 ... Apparently uses CMD / SIL 0680 chip
I found updated BIOS 3.4.0.0 here:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=41462
Adaptec ASH-1233 ... Apparently uses CMD / SIL 0680 chip
On Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:27:11 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
I'm looking at PCI IDE cards on Ebay. I see mostly Promise and Adaptec.
I need one with a BIOS that can boot the drive connected to the card.
I've used cards from both Promise and Adaptec in the past. I think it >>really depends what features you are wanting.
I'm looking at Adaptec ASH-1233. I don't think it's RAID. but I don't
need that. $10 and free shipping. Apparently uses CMD / SIL 0680 chip,
which some people praise.
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