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From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:21:52 +0100
To: Jacky Jack <jackyjack@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Promise TX2300
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Am 17.01.2006 um 20:36 schrieb Jacky Jack:

> Stefan,
>
>  Sorry, what do you mean:
>> This is with a Promise BIOS from around a year ago.

The Promise BIOS only installs a handler if it detects at least one  
drive (as can be seen in the boot selection of the mainboard's BIOS).

If a drive is connected to the promise controller, the loader will  
reset/reboot when trying to boot from an ATA CD.

> I assume both booting from floppy and cdrom have the same symptoms  
> (reboots, etc..)?

I haven't tried booting from floppy, as the Promise controller is  
only used for additional disks, so I just pulled them for the install.


Stefan

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