On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:35:45AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> No, it turns out that the Promise parts (at least the earlier 33 MB/sec ones)
> just claim to be Raid instead of PCI IDE if some random pin is pulled high
> on the PCB.  The part behaves exactly the same way, but it claims to be the
> wrong kind of device.  This could have something to do with the fact that
> Promise also sell IDE "RAID" cards that don't seem to have a whole lot of
> other logic on them but _do_ require a special driver.. hmm.... :-)

From what I've seen on other OS'es these controllers  are not fully conformant
to pciide anyway, the generic pciide driver will not work. They need some
hacks ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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