Larry’s Things .net

Generally - So far, it works…  but the very cheaply put together bios setup menu really scares me.   I haven’t seen menus like this since the old Commodore PET days.   Several times, the system wouldn’t recognize one of the mirror drives on bootup, but by the time it starts up the operating system and loads the driver and management software, it locates the missing mirror and starts to rebuild…  disconcerting…   Looks very similar to the ByteCC Raid controller (unverified).

If you’re using this card for a boot drive, installation on windows 2000 requires that you first create a floppy disk with the driver software included on the cd. 

The included management software can play an alarm sound or send an email alert if the mirror is degraded.

Conclusion:  I’d be hesitant to buy this product again.

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