Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267376AbUJNTgG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:36:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267368AbUJNTcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:32:36 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.202]:55160 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267397AbUJNTb4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:31:56 -0400 Message-ID: <58cb370e04101412312fc42a57@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:31:54 +0200 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Reply-To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Ian Pilcher Subject: Re: ATA/133 Problems with multiple cards Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 27 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/