What is ultra66 vi 12

[liznez1]

I inherited a computer with a Promise Technology Ultra66 V1.12. What is it's purpose?

 

[Paperdoc]

That is a PCI card that is an IDE drive controller supporting the Ultra 66 standard, providing two IDE ports, with each capable of handling two IDE HDD's on an 80-conductor ribbon cable for data. Here are a couple of info sites:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/Non_RAID/3544T/index.htm

http://www.driverfiles.net/IDE-Controllers/Promise-Technology/Ultra66/download/page,sh,13166,809,21,.html

http://firstweb.promise.com/upload/Support/installguide/Ultra100_Device_Driver_Update_Installation.PDF

This is an older card and machine, as you know already. I could not tell from a quick look whether it includes "48-bit LBA Support" needed to handle HDD's over 137 GB. Nor can I tell whether it can be used for a boot disk, or only for data disks.

 

[liznez1]

That is a PCI card that is an IDE drive controller supporting the Ultra 66 standard, providing two IDE ports, with each capable of handling two IDE HDD's on an 80-conductor ribbon cable for data. Here are a couple of info sites:

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/storage/Non_RAID/3544T/index.htm

http://www.driverfiles.net/IDE-Controllers/Promise-Technology/Ultra66/download/page,sh,13166,809,21,.html

http://firstweb.promise.com/upload/Support/installguide/Ultra100_Device_Driver_Update_Installation.PDF

This is an older card and machine, as you know already. I could not tell from a quick look whether it includes "48-bit LBA Support" needed to handle HDD's over 137 GB. Nor can I tell whether it can be used for a boot disk, or only for data disks.

Thank you for an understandable answer! Sorry it took me so long to thank you.