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    SubjectRe: CMD-649 support? (in a hurry - please help)
    On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

    >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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    Ruth Ivimey-Cook
    Software engineer and technical writer.

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