Promise Ultra100TX2

[Carlo Razzeto]

Hey there, I have a question about the Promise Ultra100TX2 IDE controller
card. This is the only device I own (and require) that thus far there seems
to be no driver available for. Does any one know where a driver might be
found? I've heard that Windows XP64 supported it with a built in driver
(makes me supprised microsoft ignored it for vista!), but I'm not sure where
on the XP64 disk to find the drivers or how to get this installed in vista.
Any help would be appriciated, thanks

Carlo

 

[Michael Price]

I would be interested I this as well.

 

[Theo]

I never had any luck find a driver for Win x64 for this
controller. Apparently no one at PlanetAMD64 did either.

See:
http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=129&hl=Ultra100+tx2

Not sure where you heard Win x64 supported it.

I think your chances of finding any driver(s) for Vista are
in the slim to none category. The most recent driver on the
Promise web site is dated 2003/5/6. This would lead me to
believe this is an obsolete and unsupported part, and that
Promise will not be publishing any Vista drivers in the near
future.

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

The Windows 2003 driver at
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=11&category=driver&os=0&go=GO
works with Vista for the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 card that I have.

If you copy Windows 2003 version of the driver files (ultra.cat, ultra.inf
and ultra.sys) onto a floppy or USB key, you can use the "Load Driver"
button during setup (boot from Vista DVD) to load the driver to install
Vista on a drive on the Ultra 100 TX2 card. Did that today with Vista RTM
32 bit.

Sorry, have not tried this with 64 bit Vista (the computer I have this card
in does not support 64 bit); I don't see any 64 bit drivers for this card -
its a bit "old" now and there may not be 64 bit drivers available for it, at
least not from Promise.