PROMISE VTrak M200p RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 10, 50 8 3.5' Drive Bays Dual Ultra 320 SCSI channels with four VHDCI ports Sustained Throughput Up to 465MB/sec (using both channels cached) SATA RAID Storage System Be the first to review this product. Promise Technology, Inc. This week announced the release of UltraTrak100(TM) TX4 and TX8, external SCSI-to-ATA RAID 3, 5 storage subsystems designed for Ultra ATA/100 drives. The UltraTrak100 TX Series is operating system and platform independent, working with any platform that has embedded or add-in SCSI controller support. Buy PROMISE VTrak M210p RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, and 50 – Any combination of these RAID levels can exist at the same time; Configurable RAID stripe size: 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, and 1MB stripe size per disk; Background task priori with fast shipping and top-rated customer service.

Promise Technology, Inc. this week announced the release of UltraTrak100(TM) TX4 and TX8, external SCSI-to-ATA RAID 3, 5 storage subsystems designed for Ultra ATA/100 drives. The UltraTrak100 TX Series is operating system and platform independent, working with any platform that has embedded or add-in SCSI controller support.

According to Promise, the UltraTrak100 TX4 (four-drive enclosure) and TX8 (eight-drive enclosure) work with any standard Ultra2 SCSI LVD controller (not included). When populated with up to eight Ultra ATA/100, (or Ultra ATA/66) drives, UltraTrak100 TX Series array(s) appear as a standard SCSI drive(s). Users configure and manage UltraTrak100 TX Series subsystems using a built-in LCD display screen and electronic push buttons.

'Our design makes UltraTrak100 TX subsystems virtually independent of the actual operating system platform it is being used on,' said Sam Sirisena, Promise vice president of sales and marketing. 'Network users can achieve price differences greater than 3-to-1 when compared with SCSI RAID enclosure/drive combinations.'

UltraTrak100 TX subsystems each include an internal RAID controller assembly that mounts inside the enclosure. The controller includes an Intel I960 RISC microprocessor for dedicated management of disk I/Os and to calculate parity for RAID 3 & 5 arrays. In addition, the controller houses 16MB cache memory.

The list price for UltraTrak100 TX8 is set to be $2495, which the UltraTrak100 TX4 will be. $1495.

Product: Ultra133TX2

Promise Scsi & Raid Devices Drivers

Platform: all

Firmware/Bios Version: all

Cause: change the Boot Sequence in your CMOS, PCI Slot preference, Motherboard Compataibility.

Promise SCSI & RAID Devices Driver

Solution: There are two ways to make the Ultra100 be the bootable device. One way is to make sure there are no HDDs on the motherboard controllers. The motherboard will not find a bootable device, and allow the Ultra100 to boot. The other way is to change the Boot Sequence in your CMOS to boot from SCSI first. Since the system will see the Ultra100 as a SCSI controller, this will tell the motherboard to ignore it’s own controllers and allow our card to be the boot device. Another way of seeing the card as the bootable is from a hard drive sub-menu. It may appear under the 'other' category. This last way seems to be more common in recent motherboards. Check with your MB manufacturer as to how the PCI bootable card will be seen by the boot priority selection of their motherboard. Then select it as the first boot device when you want to boot to the drive attached to the first connector.