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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:57:50 +0100
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Edward King <edk@cendatsys.com>
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Subject: re: Linux 2.4.21pre4-ac5 status report
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> [edk@cendatsys.com]
> 
> >>Maybe that's changed in 2.4.21-pre-ac new IDE code, I don't know.
> >>
> >>Your cards don't share interrupts with anything else I hope?
> >>
> I tried  two pdc20268's which failed miserably
> 
> Used an Asus motherboard and an FIC motherboard, different cables, 
> different cards, different powersupply.Hard drives are 200GB western 
> digitals, one drive per channel.  
> 
> Tried an SIIG card with the SiI680 chipset -- same problem using is and 
> the pdc20268, but is more stable than a single pdc -- so now I have 4 
> drives on that card.
> 
> My kernel is 2.4.21-pre4-ac6 -- let me know if the pre5's solve the problem.

I'd be quite interested to know whether the FreeBSD IDE driver can handle
these setups properly.

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>