From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Aug 9 10:42:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0426714ECF for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA19362; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:38:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA68480; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:38:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:38:25 -0400 (EDT) To: "Koscielny, Wally" Cc: "'alpha@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Hard Drive Support In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14255.4260.743982.513610@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -current supports EIDE, but it (still) doesn't support it as an installation device because you need to uncomment the ata driver in GENERIC. Pretty much any ncr/symbioses based PCI card should work as a boot device, as well as a q-logic isp10x0. Adaptec (ahc) adaptors will work, but the SRM console doesn't understand how to boot from them. Drew Koscielny, Wally writes: > Hi, > > > I was recently trying to install FreeBSD on a PC164LX and it I noticed that > EIDE drives/controllers are not supported. So here is my next series of > questions; > > 1.) Which CHEAP Ultra Wide controllers are supported (Advansys ? ) ? > 2.) Will a Ultra Wide SCSI drive work if the controller is supported by the > OS ? > > > Thank You Very Much, > WK. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message