Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:20:33 -0700 From: Patrick Crosby <pfcrosby@earthlink.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Hard Drive/cdrom/controller support in 4.0 Message-ID: <392CC631.1FB0CC95@earthlink.net>
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I have a 2 year old Dataexpert TX430II motherboard, supposedly with a
UDMA on board ide controller, but which 4.0 does not support. (3.2 and
3.3 are no problem on this and still older hardware-- I never tried
3.4). Will the next cdrom release be any less stringent in its
requirements? If not, is there any motherboard I can buy today
(preferably a lower cost socket 7) that I can be sure will work with
4.x? Alternatively, is there still going to be a 3.5 release, which
hopefully would work with older hardware requiring a western digital
driver? (I'm a home user mainly interested in running applications on a
stable UNIX platform, so I prefer not to get into configuring and
compiling kernels, at least not at the moment).
Thanks,
Patrick Crosby
PS: I have "Walnut Creek" cdroms, but at the moment
they are not providing free installation support. It
is at the moment unclear whether BSDi is going to have
a change of heart on this or not. Latest word from Steve Hinkle
their head of tech support is that there will be no more free tech
support of any kind.
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