From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 24 14:14:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de [194.233.237.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBACA12307 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:09:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by gilgamesch.bik-gmbh.de (8.9.2/8.7.3) id KAA38684; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:11:04 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19990224101104.B37788@cons.org> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:11:04 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: dyson@iquest.net, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs References: <199902221949.UAA63198@freebsd.dk> <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:25:44AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net>, 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. I did run such a setup as well, but the disks on the first controller with BIOS ran much faster than those on the BIOSless controller. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message