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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1053)	6/3/1998 11:02:00 PM
From: LTBH	Respond to of 14778

You got the key, economy and good function or very high cost delta for BOTH SCSI HDs and RAID but with added benefits also. If cost is not an obstacle then its just a matter of selecting which SCSI RAID (and they are all unique in function/cost/expandabilty). Networm

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1053)	6/4/1998 10:05:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

I tried to install NT on a Promise IDE controller and failed. NT loader said it didn't have a driver for the strange "SCSI" device (the primary IDE controller). This was at the point in the install just after you've finished copying mostly useless files for 55 minutes and NT reboots. Or fails to do so in this case. I never DID work around this; in fact I'm still running Win 3.11 on that machine (an old 486). I admit I quit trying after wasting a weekend on it (didn't pursue with tech support, etc). If this turns out not to be a problem or to have a simple solution, the card sounds pretty darn good. I LIKE the idea of taking disk management out of NT's fumbly little fingers. IRQs? We don't need no stinking IRQs with USB, firewire, and vaporband. <GGG> Actually for my use, an ISA SCSI-II controller works fine (CDs, scanner, CD-R). Another IRQ shot to hell <g>. You have SCSI hard drives, right? That's a different story, but you could put 45 gigs of ultra-IDE Maxtors on that promise controller for around $1200 at today's prices. Tomorrow, who knows? Two more IRQs bite the dust, but heck, you can't use 14 anyhow (or at least I can't configure any of my aging peripherals to do so - maybe assign it to PCI pnp). Spots