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In article <4jke9i$806@abacus.abasoft.co.uk>, David Byrne
<dmb@abacus.abasoft.co.uk> writes

>I've just bought a Promise 2300plus controller, as a replacement for 
>a n IDE VL multi i/o controller, and although I'm happy with the
>improvement in throughput, I've found a problem. When the system
>is reset (hard/cold booted), it comes up fine, but when ctrl-alt-del
>-ed, the BIOS screen is followed by the Promise BIOS banner, then the
>system BIOS banner, and the system then crashes instead of booting.

I had that with a dc-200 a VL bus machine. I gather that the DC-200 and
DC-2300 firmware are pretty similar so it may be the same problem.

Some of my problems were cured by a free firmware upgrade from Promise
which I got after an hour or so of calls to Promise in the US !  I don't
think that fixed the warm boot problem though.  I evolved a routine of
power down rather than warm boot.

If I let Warp warm boot, the system would crash and would corrupt the
drive horribly !  Beware.


>As the only  modification has been the swap of i/o boards, I'm sure
>that there's some incompatibility between the Promise board and something
>else on the system, but can't isolate it. Has this problem ever been 
>reported before ? I'll append a profile of the system in case it helps.

Have you tried it with no other cards in ?


J/.
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John Beardmore