NEED HELP! BP6 & Promise RAID controllers boot issues

martopg · Post by **martopg** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:17 pm

Hey, maybe someone here can help me out... I haven't been able to find anything anywhere on this. Basically, what I want to be able to do is have two Promise RAID cards in my system, and still be able to boot off one of them. Here is details on my setup...

I am running on an Abit BP6 mobo with the latest BIOS (RU). I have a FastTrak100 in PCI slot 1 that has my bootable OS array. My boot sequence is set to "EXT, A, C" in the BIOS, with EXT meaning SCSI. With this setup, I have absolutely no problems booting.

Now, I add a FastTrak SX4000 lite, and throw that in PCI slot 5. When I turn on my machine, it POSTs, goes through the FT100 BIOS screen, goes through the SX4000 BIOS screen, then the system goes to “Verifying DMI Pool Data ….” and hangs there.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work??? Promise says they don't support running two of their controllers at once, but maybe there's a way to get it to work?

Thanks a lot!!!

BCN · Post by **BCN** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:35 am

wow! I think that would be an issue with BIOS AND with promise, as of bios, maybe it does not understand which one of the two scsi is to boot from when there are two of them...

Wow, i have not even imagined that promise does not support two of their cards in a system...

that's A SHAME!!!!!!