Caveat Emptor
A few things you want to keep in mind:
Number 1: The cable inside the tray is a 40-pin, 40-conductor IDE cable, so you might as well forget about Ultra 66, unless you feel
"creative" and want to do some hacking around inside this thing. It's a free country and it's your money, nobody's stopping you. :)
Number 2: The little fan in the back is rather flimsy, so don't expect it to suck much hot air away from your IDE device. It's
ok for 5,400rpm drives, maybe even for 7,200s if your in-case temps are low, but I wouldn't go past that.
Number 3: It's all IDE. No SCSI. Don't look at me, I didn't invent the thing.
Number 4: If you want to hook up the bay as a bootable device, the drive in the bay must be set to "master" and there can't be a "slave"
on that IDE controller. Again, don't look at me, I didn't come up with this thing. I have no problems with this setup since I have an Ultra 66
controller with more hard drives and CD-ROMs on it, just be warned that if you only have 2 IDE controllers, you'll only be able to hook up 3
devices (1 primary, 2 secondary) if you're using the module as a bootable device. If you're using it as a hot-swappable device, then you still
have 4 devices (2 primary, 2 secondary), but your machine won't see the device in the tray until the .vxd is loaded by Windows (so if you boot
to DOS or whatever, you won't see the device that's on the tray). Consider yourself warned.
Number 5: Last but not least, this is a somewhat-old product. It was released in early 99 so there might be other things out there
that do the same thing. Like I said before, do your homework.
