[ale] Machine With Drives @ e,f,g,h: help?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Jan 3 23:32:32 EST 2003


I retract my previous post. The Promise 20276 is not supported in the
2.4.20 kernel or earlier. It is in 2.5.50 and later. It may be in
earlier dev kernel, but I only checked 2.5.50.

So to use the box/board, you will need a dev kernel and a custom boot
CD.

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 19:05, Danny Cox wrote:
> Denny,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 18:15, Denny Chambers wrote:
> > I am assuming that the Promise controller is an add in (meaning that it 
> > is not built onto the mother board). I have seen similar cards that 
> > allowed you to make the add-in controller the primary controller. These 
> > add in controller have there own Bios on board, much like SCSI cards do. 
> > So during boot the bios should try to read from the add-in controller 
> > Primary->Master drive. This may possible require a jumper setting on the 
> > mother board. I am not sure.
> 
> 	No, sorry, this Promise chip is on the mobo.  I've been through the
> BIOS settings, and don't see a way to change that (rats!).  It's very
> similar to the Manta board, but not identical by any means.
> 
> 	Thanks!
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