From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 24 17:18:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C0A714CEA for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:18:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 162 invoked from network); 24 Feb 1999 16:17:52 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 24 Feb 1999 16:17:52 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA06563; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902241617.LAA06563@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: Promise IDE board docs In-Reply-To: <19990224101104.B37788@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "Feb 24, 99 10:11:04 am" To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:17:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, sos@freebsd.dk, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (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 Martin Cracauer said: > 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. > The order of the boards is critical, and which bios is installed. Of course, YMMV. Each drive on each controller in my case runs at full speed :-). On the bootup sequence, I get one BIOS display of eight drive slots, as if I am using one board, with 8 drive positions (even though I really have two boards.) Of course, the PCI bus probes the controllers as two controllers, but the BIOS kind of acts like one logical controller. -- 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