From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans-Peter Jansen Subject: Re: ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:57:01 +0200 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200410151057.01713.hpj@urpla.net> References: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:43224 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267186AbUJOI5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:57:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Ian Pilcher Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:31, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:12:42 -0500, Ian Pilcher 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