> > > > I had them all flashed to the latest current version which was > > 2.20.0.15 when i started having problems. Each card was verified to > > that version as well. Some did have older firmware on them. > > > > The same problems were seen before / after flashign the card. As > > far as i could tell the promise bios will run form the first card > > and init the other cards it could be configuring something there > > which nobody else is aware of. However this only showed drives / > > drive interfaces form the first 2 cards never the 3rd card. After > > the bios has init'ed the carss the bios doesnt run on any other > > cards. > > Yes, this is true, but shouldn't harm. See below. > > > When booting the machine will 3 cards and no drives attached the > > bios is loaded and unloaded 3 times. This is why i belave something > > is getting enable / disabled on the other cards by the bios. > > Hmm, I'm running 3 TX2/100 (even with different revisions) without > big problems here: > > 00:09.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 02) > 00:0a.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 02) > 00:0b.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 01) > > > Besides these error messages, the drives seem to work fine, although > as I investigated now, the dma modes look strange: <snip dmesg / drive info> > > Also strange.. > > These drives on the third controller are used only sporadic. > The first 4 build a RAID5 array with hot spare and are used > heavily (main server for diskless clients, mail, imap, samba, > etc...) and the system sports 67 days uptime ATM :-). Yeah thats what i had although when i tried to write to both disks on the 3rd controller (1 disk on each channel) the machine would lockup do you see the same problem ? also note that the card i have are a 20269 yours are a 20268 which is slightly different. -- -------------------------- Mobile: +44 07779080838 http://www.stev.org 4:00pm up 2:26, 3 users, load average: 3.72, 3.77, 3.72 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
