From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 5:59:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58FF337B440 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 05:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16460 invoked by uid 101); 26 Aug 2000 05:17:13 -0000 Message-ID: <20000826051713.16459.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:17:12 -0500 To: Dennis Ostrovsky Subject: Re: Asus A7V & Promise ATA/100 Controller Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: gerti-freebsdq@BITart.com References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis Ostrovsky wrote: > Any idea when this hardware will be supported? I tried installing > 4.1, but it couldn't detect the hard drive since it was plugged into > the ata/100 slot. > I submitted patches, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20834 My system now boots fine using DMA5 from that slot. To get there (not for the faint of heart): - Install using the 'normal' IDE controller - Apply above patches, rebuild, install and test kernel - Add devices to /dev, at the very least: cd /dev sh MAKEDEV ad4 sh MAKEDEV ad4s1 - Change /etc/fstab, replace all ad0 with ad4 - Shut down, plug the drive into the ATA/100 controller - Et voila... However it is easy to shut yourself out of the system, so don't ask me for support if something goes wrong, you have been warned! Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message