Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:22:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: pdwyer@tinet.ie (Pat Dwyer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk Controller Drivers Message-ID: <199708252222.QAA13630@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <34018564.3E15@tinet.ie> from "Pat Dwyer" at Aug 25, 97 02:15:16 pm
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Pat Dwyer asked:
> I hope I'm mailing to the right address.
Yup. Hello!
> I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium II with 64Megs of RAM. When installing
> FreeBSD from CD the installation stops and tells me it can't detect my
> Hard Drive. I think the problem is that it can't detect my Disk
> Controller - A Promise Ultra DMA Hard Disk Controller. I have drivers
> for this device for Win95,Win NT,3.X,OS/2, but nothing for any form of
> Unix.
>
> Promise, via email, told me that they had no drivers and wouldn't
> release any specs of the device - so no joy there. Are there any
> drivers available that I could download and get FreeBSD to install?
No, and now you know why, too. Is this an IDE or SCSI controller?
We can certainly recommend a good replacement, and if GW2K doesn't
carry at least one, they can certainly refund the price of this
so-called device.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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