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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone KNOW of these working under the
> > new drivers? What about setup?
> > I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99)
> > to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic
> > after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention
> > them either.
> 
> They work OK, but you need to pull the BIOS (ie. not boot from them).

When you say "work" you don't mean as an array controller, but as a pair
of separate ATA interfaces, right?
Soren says that the raid code is just in the BIOS.

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