Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:42:22 +0100 (BST) | From | Ruth Ivimey-Cook <> | Subject | Re: CMD-649 support? (in a hurry - please help) |
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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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