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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next prev parent 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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