Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:41:57 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: sos@freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs Message-ID: <199902231941.OAA04104@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199902230810.JAA64568@freebsd.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 23, 99 09:10:47 am"
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Søren Schmidt said: > It seems John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just > > > fine, and if the hardware works, at least the new driver will support > > > it. > > > > > I run with two (2) boards, but it appears that certain (all?) versions > > of the bios require that you remove the chip from all but one board. > > Bingo, looking at the HW specs I was pretty sure it would, but not > being able to try it, I wouldn't bet on it. > The BIOS on those boards are a different story, I run mine without > the BIOS too, but then one has to setup the tranferrates etc by > hand. > Now, that is INTERESTING. With the bios that I have, all of the ports on both boards get configured properly, and run UDMA. Next time I crack my box open, I'll let you know the bios version and board (and bios) positions. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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