CompUSA Ultra ATA/133 PCI Control Card

Question

I bought a CompUSA Ultra ATA/133 PCI Control Card and wondered if their are any issues with these. I want to hook my Bootable Maxtor ATA/133 80gig Harddrive to that while opening channel 1 for a Lite-on CDRW.  I know this should go with my cdrw thread but figured i might get a more broad responce if i post this card from people who have tried it.

nyhunter · Answer

NO Sweat, I hooked one up to a new maxtor 120 gig. The card is made by Promise and sold as CompUSa. Just follow directions and it should work fine.

dagger666 · Answer

NOTE: It has been recommended in the forum to install the Promise card in PCI slot #1   how you know which PCI slot is #1?

shesagordie · Answer

dagger666. The PCI slot #1, is usually the one next to the AGP slot. Bev.

dagger666 · Answer

someone on another bb gave me this responce;

OOOOHHH, that could be a problem......If you are running an integrated
mainboard, slot 1 is the first one , looking from top to bottom. If it
is not an integrated mainboard and you are running a PCI video card,
That video card should be in slot 1. If it is a mainboard with AGP and
you are running an AGP card in the slot, the first one next to the AGP
slot is slot one, but....You can't put anything in there because AGP and
slot one pci share an IRQ... The best you could do is slot two. I have
my Highpoint sata raid controller in slot 4, and it works
perfectly.......YMMV......

don't know what intergrated MB & none Intergrated MB's are? I though all MB's were mainboards?

dagger666 · Answer

about the card, it said PCIv2.2 and i'm sure computer is PCIv2.1 since it's 4 - 5 years old. Does it matter?

dagger666 · Answer

2 Port Ultra ATA/133 PCI Card Manufacture: FMI Mfg Part #11000840 Product # 293595

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