From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264849AbTFTVel (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:34:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264851AbTFTVel (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:34:41 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:59557 "HELO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264849AbTFTVee (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:34:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 17:48:35 -0400 (EDT) From: war X-X-Sender: war@p500 To: Joe Briggs cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum Linux IDE Device Support In-Reply-To: <200306201709.16237.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> Message-ID: References: <200306201709.16237.jbriggs@briggsmedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Very nice, but in the 2.4.21 driver (going to the help option), I see that it only supports the 4 and 8 card versions, is the 12 port version supported? And I'm still trying to find out if anyone has used more than 4 Promise Boards under Linux 2.4.x. :) Thanks. On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Joe Briggs wrote: > You might want to consider the 3ware controllers. The have 2, 4, 8, and 12 > channel versions. All but the 2 channel are 32-bit. Their benefit is that > they are scsci controllers (to the bus) that control ide drives. They are > MUCH FASTER and infinetely more reliable under VERY HEAVY loads. That is, if > you have other pci cards such as frame grabbers that bus master and blast > lots of data accross the bus, the ide controllers can loose interrupts and > corrupt the file system on your drives. The 3ware boards eliminate this > painful problem and take only one irq. > > On Friday 20 June 2003 01:52 pm, war wrote: > > How many Promise ATA/133 controllers are supported under 2.4.x on the same > > box? > > > > How many can be used at the same time (PCI)? > > > > I read somewhere that 4 is supported, but are more than 4 possible? 5-6 > > possibly? > > > > > > - > > 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/ > > -- > Joe Briggs > Briggs Media Systems > 105 Burnsen Ave. > Manchester NH 03104 USA > TEL/FAX 603 232 3115 > www.briggsmedia.com >