From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 13:18:18 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 B8ACF37B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:18:13 -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 g0PLI6c01845; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:18:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0PLHwi25765; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:17:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 9040099; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:17:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3C51CB7A.8E23CD60@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:17:46 -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: craig@meoqu.gank.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers References: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org> <20020125102447.A18865@mikea.ath.cx> <20020125191859.C7B1C62B3@mail.gank.org> 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 Craig Boston wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:24:47 -0600 mikea 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