Does Promise Fasttrak 100 TX4 support 48-bit LBA?

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Does the Promise Fasttrak 100 TX4 card support 48-bit LBA disk
addressing (ie, discs > 137GB)?

I emailed Promise tech support this question, and while waiting for a
reply found a link to:
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=15&category=All&os=100

....which sure sounds like they have a BIOS upgrade for the FT 100 that
supports 48-bit.

HOWEVER, I then got a reply from Promise tech support saying they
DON'T support 48-bit: "Hi Sorry but we do not have 48 Bit LBA bios
support for the FT100
TX4."

So now I'm really confused!

I wonder if the link I found is ONLY for the Fasttrak 100 (and not for
the FT 100 TX4), or is Promise tech support just full of it?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

DT
 
Piers James said:
this is the link that you want for your hardware:-

http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=16&category=bios&os=100

there is no newer BIOS listed so it presumably does not support 48-bit LBA
as their reply stated.
Click to expand...

The FT100TX4 is an abomination.
It is actually 2 (up to the last component) FT100 TX2s on one card.

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid:[email protected]...

You can try and update the TX4 with the TX2 bios. If necessary, you
can use the flash program that comes with the TX4 initial release bios.
 
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