Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:04:33 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Anton - Valqk <lists@lozenetz.org> Subject: Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller Message-ID: <20080312120433.GA58516@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20080312112946.GA10519@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <47D7B223.6080108@lozenetz.org> <20080312110648.GA58063@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20080312112946.GA10519@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:29:46PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:48PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. > > The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal > > experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 > > should be able to handle large disks out of the box, while the Ultra100 > > needed a firmware update to handle disks larger than 128GiB.) > > My copy of Ultra100 TX2 handles such larger disks out of the box pretty well. It is probably the case that older Ultra100-TX2 units needed the firmware update, while those manufactured at a later date shipped with the newer firmware already installed. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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