From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 20:42:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scraprap.com (adsl-216-103-213-248.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.213.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91DD37B76B for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsoule@webcrossing.com) Received: from [10.0.0.103] (HELO sparky) by mail.scraprap.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with SMTP id 62205; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:42:42 -0700 From: Jeff Soule Reply-To: jsoule@webcrossing.com Organization: Web Crossing Inc. To: Ishmael Subject: Re: Hardware Support Question Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:40:51 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: jon miller , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041620424202.08194@sparky> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is very likely. I am not up to speed on version 4.0 :-/ Eating Crow /Jeff On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Ishmael wrote: > unless im blatantly incorrect, freebsd 4.0 DOES support ultra/66 > controller > > Jeremy > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Jeff Soule wrote: > > > I ran into this problem myself. freeBSD does not currently support ultra/66 controllers. > > Depending on the controller you have you can still install Linux through some convoluted > > steps. > > 1> plug your hard drive into the built in IDE interface on your motherboard and install Linux > > 2> Rebuild the kernel with the appropriate ultra/66 support and possibly a patch also > > 3> Move the drive back to the ultra/66 controller and with any amount of luck it will start and run :-) > > > > /Jeff > > > > > > On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, jon miller wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm looking for an alternative to linux, since I have a new > > > computer that linux isn't installing onto currently. I have a ultra/66 > > > controller and the linux installations can't see my hard drive. Does > > > freeBSD support this? I didn't see it on the > > > www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html site... > > > > > > thanks, > > > Jon Miller > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Jeff Soule > > System Administrator: Web Crossing Inc. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeff Soule System Administrator: Web Crossing Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message