From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 10:35:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511DC37B400 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:35:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0PIZc827936; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:35:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0PIZbk27889; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:35:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 9036766; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:35:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3C51A576.1C6F2DB6@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:35:34 -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: mikea Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers References: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org> <20020125102447.A18865@mikea.ath.cx> 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 mikea wrote: > > 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? Strangely, 2 work. Also, Linux has some sort of hack for getting 3+ working. I'm also severly disappointed in Promise, their website has no mention whatsoever about this kind of limitation in their cards. It wasn't until I called their tech support that they told me they don't support it. Otherwise, this is mostly a despiration move. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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