Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, sos@freebsd.dk, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs Message-ID: <199902241617.LAA06563@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <19990224101104.B37788@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "Feb 24, 99 10:11:04 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Martin Cracauer said: > 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. > The order of the boards is critical, and which bios is installed. Of course, YMMV. Each drive on each controller in my case runs at full speed :-). On the bootup sequence, I get one BIOS display of eight drive slots, as if I am using one board, with 8 drive positions (even though I really have two boards.) Of course, the PCI bus probes the controllers as two controllers, but the BIOS kind of acts like one logical controller. -- 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199902241617.LAA06563>