too many IDE interfaces, no room in table

[humbletech99]

Hi,
I've got a Promise Ultra 100 IDE controller in a pci slot on my machine. When the machine starts up I get this message:

... ...
PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 03:05.0
PDC20268: chipset revision 2
PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20268: too many IDE interfaces, no room in table
PDC20268: too many IDE interfaces, no room in table
... ...

Anybody got any ideas what this is about or how to fix it?

Is there a limit on the number of IDE interfaces a linux kernel can handle?

[techieMoe]

Do not post the same question twice.

[humbletech99]

well it's a hardware problem and a kernel problem judging from the error message so I wasn't sure where would be the best place to post it.

sorry!

[zeeone]

You need to go to the promise web site and down load thier Linux drivers or if you have the floppy, sometimes they are on it.

[humbletech99]

tried, they didn't have any drivers to download for it on linux, only windows and a couple others (maybe novell), but no linux - I looked under Redhat and Suse!

I don't know if we even have a floppy, but if the website doesn't have it, the floppy may not either.

[zeeone]

Funny, my ultra 100 pci promise IDE card has the Linux drivers on the same floppy with the Winblows ones, more funny when I installed the ultra 100X2 pci promise IDE card with the downloaded drivers, holy crap what a dream.