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Titolo: Si può trasformare un Promise ATA66 in....

Salve ragazzi qualcuno di voi saprebbe dirmi se si può trasformare un
Controller Promise ATA 66 in un FastTrax 66? Tempo fa lessi una notizia di
questo genere ma adesso ho perso l'articolo, qualcuno di voi sa come si fa?
E se la fatto saprebbe dirmi i risultati perfavore?
Grazie.
cob...@tin.it

 E se la fatto saprebbe dirmi i risultati perfavore?
Si, si puņ.
Serve una resistenza da 100 Ohm,un saldatore da elettronica e un po' di
stagno.
Bisogna flashare il bios della Fast Track 66 nella ATA 66, togliere il
controller dal PC, saldare la resistenza e rimettere il controller (anzi la
Fast Track 66).
Sotto l'articolo tratto dalla Discussion Board di Storage Review:
http://www.storagereview.com/
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 know this is in danish and most of you don't understand anything of it.
Look at the pictures.
I'll translate for you guys, because I like you
(LOL!)
Goals:
1: Update the card's BIOS
2: Solder a 100 Ohms
                        resistor from pin 23 to ground, OR from pin 23 to
                        16.
3: Enjoy your new el-cheapo RAID system
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UPDATE YOUR BIOS BEFORE
                        YOU SOLDER!!!
Things required:
A Promise UDMA66 controller
A 100 Ohms resistor
A soldering iron, soldering tin, and a screwdriver.
Detailed walk-through:
Buy a Promise UMDA66 controller
Buy a 100 Ohms resistor (color code:
                        brown-black-brown)
Check if the card works as an UDMA66 controller
Format a 3 1/4 inch 1.44MB diskette, make it bootable
                        (copy system files under windows format)
On this diskette you place the BIOS update program
                        and the new BIOS, find the bios on:
http://www.promise.com/
(it is the one for the RAID device you have to
                        download)
Boot on this diskette
Start the BIOS program:
A:\ptiflash.exe
FIRST TAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT BIOS!!!
Choose option no.1 and choose where you want to save
                        your current BIOS.
Flash your BIOS with the one you just downloaded, do
                        this by selecting option no.2 and write the name of
your
                        new downloaded BIOS (normally A:\ft66b108.bin)
Restart your computer
When you restart, you will get an error when your
                        computer begins to initialize the IDE-66
controller's
                        BIOS.
Shut your computer down
Pull out the Controller card
Unscrew the metal plate from the controller. (this
                        makes it easier to handle)
Solder the resistor on pin no. 23 (see the picture on
                        the website I linked to, you will see it clearly)
BE VERY CAREFUL WHEN YOU SOLDER!! The bios is much sensitive to heat, so if
your card has an IC socket they
                        recommend you to remove it.
Now you can put back the metal plate, put the card
                        back and power your computer on.
Hopefully it will work, and by pressing Ctrl-F you
                        can go into a program where you can easily select
which
                        RAID mode you want to run.
Link to bios flash program and BIOS update
http://www.geocities.com/promise_raid/FT66b108.ZIP
NOTE!!! I cannot be held responsible to any damage or
                        failure of your system or the card itself or any
living
                        person walking around you, you are on your own!
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Uffe
                        Merrild
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editor at
                        Hiphardware.com