ST Lab IDE Cards..any good.

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I need to add some extra drives to a Cheap MoBo, in the past I have used a
Promise IDE card or a MoBo that has onboard Raid/ATA that you can disable the
Raid, Only Gigabyte has this option..

But I was thinking in buying a Abit IS7-E and adding the Cheap ST Lab ATA 133
IDE card, as they are more than half of a Promise TX2 one
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Looks like a run-of-the-mill CMD (or Silicon Image, as they now call
themselves) IDE controller. They work OK once you get the driver installed,
but getting driver updates can be a problem (ST Lab doesn't list a driver on
its website, and it takes some hunting to find the generic driver at the
Silicon Image website...you'll also need cookies enabled to get at the
driver). I've had a different CMD IDE controller in the past...when it went
tango-uniform on me, I replaced it with a Promise controller.

If you're in the market for a big hard drive, Western Digital is bundling
Promise Ultra100 TX2 cards with its 160GB and larger retail-boxed IDE hard
drives. That could save you a little money.

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Looks like a run-of-the-mill CMD (or Silicon Image, as they now call
themselves) IDE controller. They work OK once you get the driver installed,
but getting driver updates can be a problem (ST Lab doesn't list a driver on
Click to expand...


Just dnloaded it, the Hong Kong site does not have any but the COM site
does..
 
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