Does Windows support the Promise Ultra ATA/66?

A. The Promise Ultra ATA/66 is an IDE interface card which with newer hard disksyou can have 66MB/s transfer times.

Promise have produced drivers for Windows NT 4.0 which can be downloaded fromhttp://www.promise.com and there is now aspecial version for Windows 2000, however as of build 2114 a built in driver forthe Ultra ATA/66 is supplied and works great. If you move from IDE to thePromise card you will need to change your boot.ini file from the multi() to thescsi() syntax.

If you perform an in-place upgrade of NT 4.0 with the promise ultra 66card/driver installed to Windows 2000 (2031) Pro it works absolutely perfectlywith the Promise Card. In Device Manager, the Ultra 66 card is listed correctlyunder SCSI devices, and under driver details, you will get "c:winntsystem32driversultra66.sys"with a file version of 1.42 (build 0218), by Promise Technology, Inc. You shouldupdate to the new Windows 2000 driver once installation has completed to be onthe safe side.