Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:17:46 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: craig@meoqu.gank.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers Message-ID: <3C51CB7A.8E23CD60@mitre.org> References: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org> <20020125102447.A18865@mikea.ath.cx> <20020125191859.C7B1C62B3@mail.gank.org>
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Craig Boston wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:24:47 -0600 mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> wrote: > > > 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? > > I use two with no problem on 4.4-STABLE: So am I. It's when I add the third one that problems occur. > I don't know why they are saying they don't support two in a machine -- the > on-card BIOS is even nice enough to only run once and it shows all eight > possible devices in the same screen together! :) Never tried 3, though. I noticed this too. Although if you add a third card it's bios won't show up in the boot sequence at all. > I have also had success using multiple SIIG-brand ATA controllers. Despite > previous bad experiences with some of their (admittedly the cheapest in the > store :) hardware, I've had good luck with their IDE stuff. I don't > remember exactly which chip it uses; the machine I have them in is at home > and powered off at the moment. YMMV. This brings me to my final option: has anybody managed to mix IDE controller cards successfully? What cards are good for this? -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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
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