From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 19 04:57:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25644 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 04:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25630; Tue, 19 May 1998 04:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01981; Tue, 19 May 1998 13:56:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199805191156.NAA01981@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB In-Reply-To: from Julian at "May 19, 98 12:49:12 pm" To: julian@ivision.co.uk (Julian) Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:56:58 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, randyk@ccsales.com, bob@wbs.net, toor@dyson.iquest.net, technical@wbs.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Julian who wrote: > > Err, forgive my ignorance here, but I installed 2.2.6-STABLE off the > net a couple of days ago... that didn't seem to include the stuff > needed. I attempted to download -current's kernel source, but it > doesn't want to compile with my sys/i386/config/CONFIGFILE... The support is ONLY in -current, there are NO plans to backport it to -stable. You cannot simply run a -current kernel on a -stable system, there are too many differences. > What am I going to need to do in order to get to use the drive? I > really would rather use it on a -STABLE system even if I then apply > a patch to that (potentially rendering it less stable) As said, this is -current material ONLY. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message