Mod an Ultra100 to RAID

[hunter00]

I'm pretty sure I heard there was a way to mod a promise ultra100 to be like a fasttrak100. anyone know anything or got a link? also, are there any disadvantages to this? or any other way to mod some other controller into a raid controller. thanks.

[cjlax5]

i think there is an article on the main site, but i cant find it, so maybe i saw it somewhere else, check the main site though

[hunter00]

okay another thing, i was looking around newegg and i saw there are a ton of raid controllers for like 25 bucks (the cost of the ultra100 anyway). is the promise really that much better? anyone try any of the others? anyone with a system anything like mine:)?

[hunter00]

Epox ATA/100 IDE Raid Controller PCI 2.1 Plug and Play, Fully Backwards compatible with UltraDMA-33/66, EIDE, Fast ATA-2, IDE and ATAPI *EP-DR02P3 not recommended with AMD760 series motherboards* Model#: EP-DRO2P3 Special Free FedEx Saver Shipping
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$25.00
YES

that is sick...epox too same as mobo...thoughts?

[hunter00]

anyone? anyone?

[ucfswimmer]

just purchases the ep-dro2p3 from computergeeks.com for $22.50...been having problems with it so far..just got an RMA and will let you know how it does performance wise when i get the new one which, will hopefully work.

~jeff~

[Kingslayer]

There was a way to mod the ATA-66 card to a raid controller. It was done by grounding out on of the posts on the bios chip. I think the same can be done on the ATA-100 card, but I can't verify this. If you do it, or find anything keep us updated.

[eazulu]

You can try this 1 www.tweakhardware.com there is an article about ide mod to raid.