From: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:57:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410151057.01713.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:31, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:12:42 -0500, Ian Pilcher
<i.pilcher@comcast.net> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 16:23 ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards James Stevenson
2004-10-14 18:12 ` Ian Pilcher
2004-10-14 19:31 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-15 8:57 ` Hans-Peter Jansen [this message]
2004-10-17 2:51 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-17 14:45 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-17 17:45 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-20 10:29 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-20 10:35 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2004-10-20 11:18 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-20 14:23 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2004-10-20 15:08 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-21 18:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-21 20:00 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2004-10-21 21:56 ` James Stevenson
2004-10-22 2:42 ` Albert Lee
2004-10-22 23:51 ` James Stevenson
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