On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 09:03:57AM +0200, Bruce Martin wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I've got hold of some Promise Ultra 33 PCI IDE cards for the
> > NetBSD/arm32 port. However, due to a wiring problem, the
> > Promise reports as Mass Storage RAID instead of Mass Storage
> > IDE, and this throws the kernel into confusion. I need to
> 
> A "wiring" problem?  What kind of wiring problem could change the device
> ID without completely rendering the device useless?
All promise cards I have seen claim to be RAID devices. There is a pin on
the controller that set how the device identifies itself and all the
ultra/33 or ultra/66 boards I have seen have this wired for RAID.
This requires a patch to the IDE driver to recognise this card as an IDE
card.

Cheers,
				Mark