From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 6:33:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F87F37B416 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 06:33:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0SEWXc19865; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:32:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0SEWWi26917; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:32:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 8980899; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:31:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5560FF.E89644EF@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:32:31 -0500 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Attila Nagy Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Attila Nagy wrote: > > Hello, > > > This brings me to my final option: has anybody managed to mix IDE > > controller cards successfully? What cards are good for this? > Quoting Soren Schmidt: > > Q: "Is it possible to use multiple Promise ATA-100 cards in one machine? > If yes, how much?" > A: "Yes, you should be able to use as many as you have PCI slots for. > I have made systems with 3 promises with no problems." > > And: "Well, I would buy HPT370 based cards, like the Abit hotrod100, the > HPT370 chip is a far better design than the promise, and gives better > performance." > > So I think it is possible to use more than two Promise ATA cards, but the > HPT 37x is the preferred way, by the ATA-driver author. Quick question to anybody who has these cards: Can HPT370 based cards run as JBOD (with all of the RAID features turned off) controllers? I'm not looking for the card to do any sort of RAID itself since that's what I'm using vinum for. Mostly, I'm trying to avoid having two disks on the same lun share an IDE controller (IE as master and slave). -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message