>hi
>
>I just got a call from my vendor, telling me my ordered configuration with
>three promise controllers were impossible, as the promise BIOS couldn't
>handle more than eight drives, no matter how many controllers you had. So.
I noticed a while ago that there is a little-advertised 4-cable promise
controller available (i.e. 8 disks from one PCI card). It might be the case
that the BIOS for this card can cope with one other similar card, to give a
max of 16 disks.
HTH,
Ruth
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