From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 23:16:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D6E637B637 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 23:16:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfcrosby@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (ip191.los-angeles17.ca.pub-ip.psi.net [38.29.86.191]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA19067 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 23:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <392CC631.1FB0CC95@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:20:33 -0700 From: Patrick Crosby X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Hard Drive/cdrom/controller support in 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message