Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying chips
hi ya jason
yes...
but most people that build hardware learned long ago
to put the "wire to enable" the expensive feature
into the packaging process... jumper pin# 234 to grn or
not inside the plastic....
- NOT on the pc board
- the flash can be identical in both products...
- "manufacturing" is expensive process
- minimal number of manual steps to finished product
is usually better/faster/cheaper/reliable/etc..
c ya
alvin
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jason Pepas wrote:
> > my silly thinking says...
> >
> > one cannot convert non-raid ide controllers into a hw raid controller
> > by adding or cutting wires/traces/resistors
>
>
> it is a fairly well documented fact that you can.
>
> Think of it this way:
>
> A company has to produce two products:
> - an IDE controller
> - an IDE RAID controller.
>
> It is cheaper to produce one chipset which can do both than to produce
> two different chipsets.
>
> Thus, they simply disable certain features for the non-RAID controller
> and sell them at a cheaper price.
>
> luckily for us, certain members of the hardware community figured this
> out.
>
> jason
> jason@pepas.com
> jason.pepas.com
>
>
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