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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:10:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        dyson@iquest.net
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Promise IDE board docs
Message-ID:  <199902230810.JAA64568@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199902230725.CAA02636@y.dyson.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Feb 23, 1999  2:25:44 am"

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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.

-Søren


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