Re: a couple hardware inquiries

[Thera <tvpeterson@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Palmer wrote:
> 
> the promise controller was dropped because it wasn't needed anymore... it
> was there because it was udma100 and the ide built into the via 686a south
> bridge was only udma66.. so asus could say udma100 support and such about
> the board....  but the via 686B southbridge replaces the udamn66 controllers
> with udma 100 giveing the board udma 100 without add on junk....


>From what I understand of AMD's A7V133 mobo which uses VIA133A chipset
with the 686B Southbridge, the Promise controller is still used/needed. 
The difference being that it has two ATA/100; rather than the one
ATA/100 and one ATA/66 of the A7V mobo. (thus enabling 8 *identical*
HD's ...ie RAID 0) while the A7V can 'only' support 4 66's and 4 100's. 

Is there a new ASUS mobo available that does not use the Promise
controller ?

Thera