Re: Problems with multiple Promise SATA150 TX4 cards

[berk walker <berk@panix.com>]

Mitchell Laks wrote:

>Hi,
>Thank  you all for all of your work on this topic.
>
>1) I apologize for my email bouncing. I have  no real choice in dsl service. 
>Perhaps I will consider cable to prevent my mail bouncing! :)
>
>2) I am able to hang 10 drives on 3 of the Promise SATA150 TX4 cards. So far 
>the construction of 5 raid1's  and mkfs.ext3 is ok without kernel  error.  
>All 10 drives are recognized by the promise BIOS (it shows drives 0-9) during 
>system turnon. I use two separate 450 W antec power supplies.
>
>If I put on 12 drives, 4 on each one, the promise bios does  not let me go 
>further. It hangs. Says something about not able to recognize hardware 
>configuration or something.
>
>This may be a hardware limitation, or even a faulty channel or two or perhaps 
>one/two  of the  additional drives is not working. I dont know. I did notice 
>this  "not booting behavior for TX4" with no adequate hints as to what is 
>going on earlier when i tried to hang a for a non funcioning sata drive on 
>the card that failed right after purchase". I tried 11 drives also and   no 
>go. only 8 or less.
>
>
>Thank you all and I will let you know what i discover..
>
>mitchell laks
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In the past, I've had boxes that couldn't handle all of the extra PCI 
requirements of the Promise boards.  My newer stuff seemed OK.
Email problem comment sent off-channel, pvt.
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