Iwill Side Pro 66 v1.1 card...moddable for RAID??

[Mr B]

Hi,

I've had this card tucked away in my closet for a while now....I've wondered if it could be modded to be used as a RAID controller...

It's an Iwill Side Pro66 ver 1.1 , and the specs are as follows:

Specifications



HighPoint HP366 ATA66 controller chip.

Two independent IDE channels

Ultra DMA66, DMA33 and all PIO mode.

256 bytes FIFO per channels.

32bit/33MHz Bus Master PCI interface.

Supports up to 44MHz PCI bus clock.

Concurrent PIO and bus master access (ATA mode accessible during DMA transfer.

One IDE LED header.

I could have sworn I saw somewhere on the net (perhaps here, but i can't find it...), that his can be modded for RAID somehow...I cannot remember though. It's got the HPT 366 controller...not the HTP368 or 370, which I know can run RAID...

Does anyone know if this can indeed be modded to do this?? I'm in the process of getting the pieces together to build a small game server, and it would be nice to have in it, if I can....;)

TIA!!!! :D

Mr B

[Jon]

If it can be, it will be here (www.tweakhardware.com).

I've got two of the SideRAID66 cards...very good, so I hope they have good news for you.

EDIT:

Oops...had to fix the link if it was dead for you.

And, looks like all you have to do is flash the BIOS. No mod needed!

[William]

Yatta!?!?

http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/hpt366/

[Mr B]

THIS is why this site and these Forums are the best!!!!

Thanks guys! I thought it could...now, the server will have RAID...:p

As soon as I can scrape together the $$ to get a 2nd HDD to go with my 30GB Maxtor....lol;)

**edit** The sweet part is..., some guy in the apartment building where I live tossed this card in the dumpster, with a whole bunch of other stuff one day...so I got it for $0.00 hehe :D (along with an unused Gorb, s7/s370 Coolermaster HSF, a ton of IDE/floppy cables, a P90, a P75, about a dozen 486 33/50/66's, a dozen or so sticks of 72 pin ram, a few ISA expansion cards (vid, sound, IO ports, etc for old AT rigs), and a few other odds and ends I can't think of at the moment....there was a stack of i386 mobo's (where I got the ram from) too...but I left those there...lol

I know I've installed this card at one point long enough to know Windows correctly identifies it...so I'm assuming it still works.

Man...this makes my night.... ;)