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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: 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: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:31:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ckmfiq$rc7$1@sea.gmane.org>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-14 19:31 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 [this message]
2004-10-15  8:57     ` Hans-Peter Jansen
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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