From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 24 14:15:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F22120A4 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA66939; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:31:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199902240931.KAA66939@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs In-Reply-To: <19990224101104.B37788@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "Feb 24, 1999 10:11: 4 am" To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:31:46 +0100 (CET) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net>, 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. > > I did run such a setup as well, but the disks on the first controller > with BIOS ran much faster than those on the BIOSless controller. Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the "do it by hand" code in there and recommend removing the BIOS :( -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message