From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:31:54 +0200 Sender: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org Message-ID: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-to: kernelnewbies-bounce@nl.linux.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: To: Ian Pilcher Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/