Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:23:11 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: craig@meoqu.gank.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple Promise controllers Message-ID: <3C51CCBF.7010904@owt.com> References: <3C518444.2EBCCD83@mitre.org> <20020125102447.A18865@mikea.ath.cx> <20020125191859.C7B1C62B3@mail.gank.org> <3C51CB7A.8E23CD60@mitre.org>
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Jason Andresen wrote: > Craig Boston wrote: > >>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:24:47 -0600 mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> wrote: >> >> >>>If the manufacturer says you can only use, or that they only >>>support, one card in the system, then what basis in fact do >>>you have for thinking it possible to use two? >>> >>I use two with no problem on 4.4-STABLE: >> > > So am I. It's when I add the third one that problems occur. Have you tried the tx4? The other thing is that by the time you get this kind of setup shouldn't you be looking at scsi anyway. I think you have passed beyond what IDE was intended to be used. > > >>I don't know why they are saying they don't support two in a machine -- the >>on-card BIOS is even nice enough to only run once and it shows all eight >>possible devices in the same screen together! :) Never tried 3, though. >> > > I noticed this too. Although if you add a third card it's bios won't > show up in the boot sequence at all. > > >>I have also had success using multiple SIIG-brand ATA controllers. Despite >>previous bad experiences with some of their (admittedly the cheapest in the >>store :) hardware, I've had good luck with their IDE stuff. I don't >>remember exactly which chip it uses; the machine I have them in is at home >>and powered off at the moment. YMMV. >> > > This brings me to my final option: has anybody managed to mix IDE > controller > cards successfully? What cards are good for this? > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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