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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller
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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. 




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