re promise techhnology caching ide controller in article c t q iq dove nist gov livigni bldrdoc gov david livigni writes looking for help in just the right place does anyone have experience with the promise technology caching ide controller dc m i just ordered one with k installed and have a few questions is it easy to use does it need any kind of tsr s or is it completely transparent to the system board so that i won t have to change the bios configuration yes it s easy to use it s just like an ordinary controller you don t have to change the bios config is it transparent to the ide drive will it work with any drive or does it have to be configured explicity for the type of drive installed it s transparent it works with any drive if you change the drive you only need to change the bios config as usual will it work with a dual drive system master and slave yes no problem with it will i need smartdrive or dos buffers that depends you will get a little better performance if you use smartdrive and buffers in addition that s because access to the card through the isa bus is slower than access to system ram i don t use smartdrive myself but i have a few buffers is the promise technology controller a good one any information would be greatly appreciated thanks david livigni livigni bldrdoc gov anything stated here is my opinion only y d rule of the great when people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts they probably are thinking about lunch stig
