From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 23 0:11: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1BE11F51 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA64568; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:10:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199902230810.JAA64568@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs In-Reply-To: <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Feb 23, 1999 2:25:44 am" To: dyson@iquest.net Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:10:47 +0100 (CET) Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems John S. Dyson wrote: > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just > > fine, and if the hardware works, at least the new driver will support > > it. > > > I run with two (2) boards, but it appears that certain (all?) versions > of the bios require that you remove the chip from all but one board. Bingo, looking at the HW specs I was pretty sure it would, but not being able to try it, I wouldn't bet on it. The BIOS on those boards are a different story, I run mine without the BIOS too, but then one has to setup the tranferrates etc by hand. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message