Will Multiple Promise controllers work in the same system?

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Well, one of them is a ultra66 and I have not purchased the other.
Adding on top of the imbedded controller on the motherboard.
Thanks...
 
It depends mostly on the system BIOS, but it most likely will work without any problem. The Promise adapters emulate SCSI, so you could theoretically use as many as you want. I use one Promise card and two Adaptec SCSI adapters. If I select boot from SCSI in the system BIOS it will boot from the first adapter it sees. Some system BIOSs will let you select which adapter to boot from.
 
It depends mostly on the system BIOS, but it most likely will work without any problem. The Promise adapters emulate SCSI, so you could theoretically use as many as you want. I use one Promise card and two Adaptec SCSI adapters. If I select boot from SCSI in the system BIOS it will boot from the first adapter it sees. Some system BIOSs will let you select which adapter to boot from.
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Your system is close to what I will wind up with, 2X Adaptec ISA SCSI adapters , I wish to add 8 IDE drives. 2 promise
controllers will do well if they work. At this stage of the game looking for an economical card, or pair of cards on the
cheap. I would like to buy the fastest card possible, stripe a pair of maxtor 160's on it, and move my current Ultra66
promise over into the 66mhz system bus, Pentium 1, 512M ram system that is working well as a file server. This move will
also let me upgrade my desktop system,and the file server. Large SCSI just out priced me, so I went with ATA/133 and a
set of large drives. I dont suppose you are running NT4? I am having a hard time getting the second AVA1505 to be
noticed.

Thanks again...
 
I run WinNT4 but all of my adapters are PCI.
Your system is close to what I will wind up with, 2X Adaptec ISA SCSI adapters , I wish to add 8 IDE drives. 2 promise
controllers will do well if they work. At this stage of the game looking for an economical card, or pair of cards on the
cheap. I would like to buy the fastest card possible, stripe a pair of maxtor 160's on it, and move my current Ultra66
promise over into the 66mhz system bus, Pentium 1, 512M ram system that is working well as a file server. This move will
also let me upgrade my desktop system,and the file server. Large SCSI just out priced me, so I went with ATA/133 and a
set of large drives. I dont suppose you are running NT4? I am having a hard time getting the second AVA1505 to be
noticed.

Thanks again...
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