On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:12:42 -0500, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Stevenson wrote: > > > > i seem to have run into an annoying problem with a machine which has > > 3 promise ata/133 card the PDC20269 type. > > > > .... > > > > > Does anyone have an explenation of why this can happen ? * check power supply * compare PCI config space of the "failing" controller to the one which is "working" (assuming that identical devices are connected to each), maybe firmware/driver forgets to setup some settings > Promise cards don't support more than two per machine. If you can get a > third card to work in PIO mode, consider it an added (but unsupported) > bonus. AFAIR people have been running 4-5 cards just fine -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
