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DateFri, 7 Jun 2002 12:42:22 +0100 (BST)
FromRuth Ivimey-Cook <>
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

-- 
Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Software engineer and technical writer.

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