Re: IDE-Driver Update :: Testing Requested (Ultra33 as RAID?? (fwd))

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:48:36 +0200


Hello,

> I have one.
>
> The board uses a single PCI interrupt when in "native" mode,
> and a pair of interrupts when in "compatibility" mode (IRQ14/15),
> as do *all* compliant PCI IDE controllers.
>
> Note the confusion may simply be that a *single* "IDE controller"
> these days always supports *two* hwif's (interfaces).
>
> The Promise RAID card is identical to the Promise Ultra33 IDE card,
> except for a different on-board BIOS.

I'm not sure about how does the IRQ compatibility mode work. The PCI bus
itself has no chance how to transmit any IRQ different from the standard
IRQ A/B/C/D pins. It must be either a planar device connected to non-PCI
IRQ pins or the BIOS must have routed the standard IRQ pins of that card
to IRQ 14/15. Anyway, if it's a real PCI card and it uses only IRQ A,
there is no chance to have it generate two different IRQ numbers.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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