Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 18:44:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow <rsnow@legend.txdirect.net> To: Mark Smith <msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise 2300 IDE cntroler work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950728183543.18908A-100000@oasis> In-Reply-To: <9507282222.AA10429@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>
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On Fri, 28 Jul 1995, Mark Smith wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm looking at getting a Promise 2300 ISA EIDE controller for my > machine. This card is supposed to support 4 HDDs and 4 floppies along > with the other usual trivia like 16550 serial ports and a bi-directional > parallel port. > > Has anyone had any experience with this controller? > > Thanks, > > Mark I've been running mine (2300+ VL Bus) on my AMD DX4-100 since February. I had with some hitches. Most of the hitches envolved getting the DOS/Windows drivers working right. This was till I noticed that my MB BIOS does 32bit/Multi-Block. Turned off all 2300+ drivers except for windows, (windows still offers spooradic reboots and hangs, but what's new) and turned off 2300+ BIOS and it has been running great since then. Had to rebuild kernel with 32bit and Multi-block but that's it. 16550's work great and ECP/EPP was ON with no downside to FreeBSD even when using lp0. Summary: Solid as a rock under FreeBSD. Pretty good with others (mostly commercial software from some company up North West aways :-) ) --- Rob Snow rsnow@txdirect.net
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