On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 17:40 +0000, David Greaves wrote: > >> sounds like a spinup time on marginal power to me. > > No, it's a limitation of the Promise BIOS on the cards, it will only > > detect a maximum of 8 drives. I had a quick convo with tech support > > from Promise over this and they told me they don't support more than > > one card in a machine in any case. (Which is odd given they advertise > > the ability to RAID-5 across 2 cards!) > > <snipped the rest about power issues> I'd really consider the PSU. I had all sorts of weird problems with my promise SATA150 TX2plus until I replaced the PSU. Apparently it doesn't suffice to supply _enough_ power.
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