From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 22 23:25:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18765119C2 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 6421 invoked from network); 23 Feb 1999 07:25:45 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 23 Feb 1999 07:25:45 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA02636; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:25:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs In-Reply-To: <199902221949.UAA63198@freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 22, 99 08:49:39 pm" To: sos@freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:25:44 -0500 (EST) Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (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 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. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message