Martin Cracauer said: > In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just > > > fine, and if the hardware works, at least the new driver will support > > > it. > > > > > I run with two (2) boards, but it appears that certain (all?) versions > > of the bios require that you remove the chip from all but one board. > > I did run such a setup as well, but the disks on the first controller > with BIOS ran much faster than those on the BIOSless controller. > The order of the boards is critical, and which bios is installed. Of course, YMMV. Each drive on each controller in my case runs at full speed :-).
On the bootup sequence, I get one BIOS display of eight drive slots, as if I am using one board, with 8 drive positions (even though I really have two boards.) Of course, the PCI bus probes the controllers as two controllers, but the BIOS kind of acts like one logical controller. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dy...@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdy...@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
