Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:24:47 -0600 From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers Message-ID: <20020125102447.A18865@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:13:56AM -0500 References: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org>
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:13:56AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > Has anyone managed to get multiple Promise controllers (like the > Ultra100Tx2) working in a machine? Anything more than 2 controllers > and the additional controllers seem to refuse to do anything other than > PIO4 (although they detect at UDMA100). The cards appear fine (if > I swap cards, it's always the last one that fails). Rearranging > the cards in the PCI slots does no good. Promise Technologies was > remarkably unhelpful stating that they only support 1 Promise > controller in a system. Does anybody on this list have any experiance > getting 3 or more promise controllers working? I remember seeing a > flag in Linux for some sort of "burst" mode, but I havn't been able > to find anything similar in FreeBSD. I think that the key sentence in your post is this: > Promise Technologies > ... stating that they only support 1 Promise > controller in a system. If the manufacturer says you can only use, or that they only support, one card in the system, then what basis in fact do you have for thinking it possible to use two? -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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