Re: ATA/100 Promise Board

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Wilson wrote:

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> From: "Joel Jaeggli" <[e-mail]>
> To: "Wilson" <[e-mail]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:20 PM
> Subject: Re: ATA/100 Promise Board
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> > I have three fasttrack 66's and one ultra100 in the same box... at present
> > it's out of pci slots, so I won't be adding more... ;)
> >
>
> Quoting from pdc202xx.c:
>
>  *  The latest chipset code will support the following ::
>  *  Three Ultra33 controllers and 12 drives.
>  *  8 are UDMA supported and 4 are limited to DMA mode 2 multi-word.
>  *  The 8/4 ratio is a BIOS code limit by promise.
>  *
>  *  UNLESS you enable "CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST"
>
> Does this match your experiences with that many controllers in the same box?
> Thanks for the reply, by the way.

I don't have any of the ultra33 (20246) controllers... but I do have
CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST set (ie. the "enabled special dma feature").
everything is more or less normal except that I think hdk in the box is
slowly dying at this point... this box has 8 drives on four controllers
rather than 12 on 3

hda: WDC AC22000L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307015, ATA DISK drive
hde: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive
hdg: IBM-DTLA-307075, ATA DISK drive
hdi: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
hdk: WDC AC418000D, ATA DISK drive
hdm: WDC WD273BA, ATA DISK drive
hdo: WDC WD273BA, ATA DISK drive

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