AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[Corbett Battaile]

It's a Rev B - the onboard IDE chip is marked "646U2-402." Still 
scratching my head...


> Hmmm, interesting...
> 
> In addition to the AEC6280M, I have two nearly identical PC cards
> based on the PDC20269 chipset (one card is Promise-branded, the other
> Maxtor), and neither seem to function properly in the G3/BW. It's
> very likely that I'm screwing something up here, or that there's some
> conflict with other hardware.
>
> Do you have any other PCI cards installed? What PCI slot is the
> Promise card installed in?
>
> Thanks, - Corbett
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
>>
>>
>> Corbett Battaile writes:
>> 
>> Oh well, more tinkering I suppose. I plan to try the ACard in a
>> different machine (G4/GigE) and also plan to try a Promise-based
>> card in the G3/BW. Failing all that, I'll probably have to resort to
>> attaching the IDE drives to the internal ATA/33 and booting off a
>> SCSI card.
>
>
> I've got a Promise UltraDMA card in my G3/BW and it seems to work ok
> with 2.4.20 kernels as well as the current YDL4 kernel (but you can't
> boot with it because the card BIOS is for PCs).  I can even do MOL
> using the Promise card.
>
> Henry


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