On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:31, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > 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 * apic mode is helpful * current and even more important _identical_ firmware versions on all cards, which is quite annoying, since the promise DOS firmware loader doesn't like to be executed from a nbi ramdisk, neither on C:\ nor on A:\ and I hate booting DOS from floppy.. :-( Pete -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
