Pictures
Here are pictures of different NetCell cards. Not all went into production!
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Picture 1:
Top: 3 port, 64 MByte cache, 32 bit PCI
Buttom: 5 port, 128MByte cache, 64 bit PCI
Picture 2:
Left hand side: Engineering Prototype of "NC1x3" - standard "NC4x4" PCI/PATA board with 'interposer' to convert to IDE interface for Ho (connector on bottom right side of card).
Right hand side: Shipping "NC1x3" with IDE or FireWire connectors to host and on flip side (of two board set) 5 SATA disk ports.
(Note headers at top and bottom of left side of board for hardware debug)
(Functional note: For IDE interface to Host system to work realiably, IORDY must be used by host system; which most new host systems do NOT).
Picture 3:
Top red board: 3 port SATA with only 4MByte cache (small square chip to right of Netcell chip) with 'paddle' card for serial debug port hookup.
Right side: 2 green boards - 3 and 5 port SATA with only 64MByte cache.
Left side middle: 3 external, 2 internal SATA ports with 128 MByte cache.
Left side bottom: 5 SATA, 128 MByte cache, 64 bit PCI.
Picture 4:
Top board: "TROI" 5 port native SATA, 128 MByte cache (2 memory chips on backside), 64 bit PCI.
Bottom board: "NC4x4" chip with PCI-e to PCI bridge chip, 1 PCI-e lane, 5 SATA, 128 MByte cache.
More information will follow!
Latest news
The last update ...
11th January 2009
Small changes and cleanup, added some contact information and some info on Windows 7 compability.
26th July 2008
Added a section with pictures and more information under ekstra information and user to user help.
13th April 2008
Added two new sections and more info in the extra section. Corrected several small errors and some more HTML clean up.
22th December 2007
Added more information in the ekstra info section and corrected several small errors. HTML clean up.
4th November 2007
New files in the download section plus a lot of small corrections.
12th August 2007
Lots of new files in the downloads section.
29th July 2007
Link to cheap cards at Newegg.com.
28th July 2007
New page goes online.
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