Promise Ultra133 TX2 dual channel IDE adaptor driver

I'm looking into buying a mac from a friend. I have a Promise Ultra133 TX2 dual channel IDE adaptor (Maxtor) that I need to use. I have 2 extra hard drives that I want to add, but theres not enough IDE slots in it so I plan to use the card I currently have. I tried the card in the mac before so I could transfer some files off my drive to him, but it wasn't recognized. I did some internet research and saw no information that leads me to believe there is any support for this card whatsoever.
So my question is: is there any support for this card or will there ever be, or do I have to get a different one?

I have the same promise card that I want to put into an older (digital audio) power mac. I tried it, as you did, and it wasn't recognized.
I checked the promise website and they seem to only have windows drivers. The mac currently only has panther, have you tested the promise card in tiger? I tried to install tiger but it wouldn't work, the installation just freezes, I don't think I have enough memory (only 128MB, I've tried varios other types of SDRAM and it doesn't seem to recognize any of it).
My problem is that the built in ATA channel will only recognize my 200GB drive as 127GB, and I'm trying to get the full capacity recognized.

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