Ah, I can verify this has fixed the lockups for me too. I previously
had the BIOS disabled cause it takes so long to boot, but recently
reenabled it. smartctl can hapily operate on all drives now.
> Does my having the "bios" for that controller turned off create the
> problem? ( I don't boot from those drives, so didn't see any reason to
> have it... )
I do now boot from my Promise controlled drives, and yes, I need the
BIOS.
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