The card came with a user manual and two ATA66 cables. The cables were clearly labeled so you knew which end connects to the hard drive and which end connects to the motherboard. The manual is pretty straightforward. It describes pretty well the installation process and how to set everything up. However, it's not as detailed as Promise's manual. It's good though because that takes away some of the confusion.

The card itself is small. It's the smallest PCI card I have seen. The card has three IDE connections, two Internal and one external. I had some problems with the installation. For one thing, my case is rather large and the cables wouldn't reach the controller at all. I had to move around one of my drives to get it all working. Another problem is that one of the connections is on the bottom of the card. To me that makes it hard to have another PCI device in the next slot. Although it could probably fit, it will be a squeeze.

To install the controller, I had to reformat both my hard drives. I used two different hard drives for the testing since I didn't have two similar ones around. Other reviews out there use identical hard drives, but I believe that the scores for different hard drives gives a better sense of how the card performs. The major draw back of different drives is that if you use striping, the total size you get is double that of the smallest drive. So for someone who decides to buy a RAID card and wants to use to existing hard drives, this review will show how that would turn out.

The card uses the Highpoint Technologies chipset, which is the same used in my BP6. At first, I was afraid that there might be a conflict but it turned out nothing went wrong. One thing to note is that even though the drives were connected to the SIDE RAID66, the Highpoint BIOS on my BP6 would still register them as being there. Strange but I have seen no side effects. The rest of the installation went without any problems. Windows NT started up fine and I installed the drivers. The BIOS has already been flashed prior to installation for the best performance.