From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 2:47:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scribble.fsn.hu (scribble.fsn.hu [193.224.40.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87CE737B404 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 02:47:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11377 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Jan 2002 10:47:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 10:47:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:47:07 +0100 (CET) From: Attila Nagy To: Jason Andresen Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers In-Reply-To: <3C51CB7A.8E23CD60@mitre.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, > This brings me to my final option: has anybody managed to mix IDE > controller cards successfully? What cards are good for this? Quoting Soren Schmidt: Q: "Is it possible to use multiple Promise ATA-100 cards in one machine? If yes, how much?" A: "Yes, you should be able to use as many as you have PCI slots for. I have made systems with 3 promises with no problems." And: "Well, I would buy HPT370 based cards, like the Abit hotrod100, the HPT370 chip is a far better design than the promise, and gives better performance." So I think it is possible to use more than two Promise ATA cards, but the HPT 37x is the preferred way, by the ATA-driver author. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy@fsn.hu Budapest Polytechnic (BMF.HU) @work: +361 210 1415 (194) H-1084 Budapest, Tavaszmezo u. 15-17. cell.: +3630 306 6758 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message