Joseph Kerian wrote: > Hmm... I have to ask if you (or anyone else) has actually done this. > I attempted to run two Highpoint cards in the same machine about a > year ago, and the Highpoint driver became extremely confused. They > were nowhere near the same card (one was IDE, the other was a 1640), > but the driver seemed to be having difficulty seperating the drives.
I'm running two RocketRAID 454 cards (4 channel ATA = 8 disks each) in one of my servers. There is however explicit support for doing this in the BIOS/firmware on these cards. > Only one of the setup screens would appear on boot. I tried different > combinations of PCI slot locations and specific instructions to the > driver to no avail. I ended up using g/vinum for the IDE drives. > I don't exactly remember the other card's model, but the 454 > looks likely. The disappearance of the BIOS/firmware config for your card(s) is not a FreeBSD problem unfortunately. It has to do with how resources are allocated by the motherboard's BIOS. I have a Tyan Tiger 2466M mobo myself (dual Athlon MP) that I have populated with a SCSI card, a dual port Gbit NIC and two RocketRAID 454 cards. To get it to boot I had to use a jumper to forcefully disable the onboard 100Mbit NIC. And I still cannot boot off of a floppy without first disconnecting at least one of the cards. You could try to update the BIOS on your motherboard. Some motherboards also allows you to disable BIOS/firmware loading for certain PCI slots. This could help free up some resources for cards that you don't boot from. /Daniel Eriksson _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"