Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:10:47 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs Message-ID: <199902230810.JAA64568@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Feb 23, 1999 2:25:44 am"
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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
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