From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Pilcher Subject: Re: ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:12:42 -0500 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:63650 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267386AbUJNTUo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:20:44 -0400 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CIB9X-0001YS-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:20:43 +0200 Received: from c-24-0-215-208.client.comcast.net ([24.0.215.208]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:20:42 +0200 Received: from i.pilcher by c-24-0-215-208.client.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:20:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org 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 ? > 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. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@comcast.net ========================================================================