Maxtor K01PCAT100 UDMA 100 PCI Card

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Summary: Nice card that can finally access larger drives
Review: got this card for almost 2 years and almost got the new promise TX2 133 but found many people had problems. I never had any problems with these. Easy to install, plug in and it ask you for the drivers in 95, 98 and Win2k and restart and that is it. People that had problems was they did not put the jumpers at the back of the drive and set it to Active on Fdisk. Transfer rates is very high and no corruption to data. TX2 had corruption of data according to several sites. Got the new western digital 160GB andupdated the BIOS and I was able to access it. Cool is I had this card nearly 2 years ... and with the new BIOS I can use this for another 3 years more.... it is definitely a deal. Good job Maxtor!! Going to find a few more for my other Lan computers. problem is everything is so high here.... US is so lucky.

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Summary: Do not buy!!
Review: I spent three days trying to implement in my three year old 300 Mhz PC. Award 4.5 BIOS seemed to be a bottle neck. I could not access more than 30MB of my new 60Mb hard drive. Since I could access this through the mother board IDE, I am selling the board.

It was a nice idea, just a limited system.

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Summary: Good board, incompatible BIOS
Review: I spent three days trying to implement in my three year old 300 Mhz PC. Award 4.5 BIOS seemed to be a bottle neck. I could not access more than 30MB of my new 60Mb hard drive. Since I could access this through the mother board IDE, I am selling the board.

It was a nice idea, just a limited system.

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Summary: Great Ultra DMA Card
Review: The Maxtor K01PCAT100 UDMA 100 PCI Card is an good buy even if you don't have UDMA devices, it allows you to put four addition IDE devices in your computer, also it took me less than ten minutes to install physically and set up the software. In addition if you it is a very "smart? card, so far every device I've plugged into it has require MINIMAL set up. This product is a great buy.

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Summary: Do not buy!!
Review: This card did not function well for me. I do video editing and tried to copy a 11GB file. It crashed Win2k. I've tested multiple times, and still didn't work.

I ended up getting a Promise board (133tx), and worked like a charm. Makes me wonder about Maxtor, especially since it looks like they OEM from Promise. (Promise chips are on the Maxtor board).