From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 8:47:31 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 94F7537B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:47:24 -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 g0SGktc14399; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:46:55 -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 g0SGkri18276; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:46:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 8984709; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:46:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3C55807B.2CD7BC69@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:46:51 -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." With DMA though? :) FreeBSD is happy to run the card, in PIO mode... > 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. Thanks! That's exactly the info I was looking for. Where did you find this FAQ by the way? I never found anything even remotely like it when searching through google. I'm sure it's someplace obvious. :) -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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