From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 15:23:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA15582 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15573 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id QAA13630; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:22:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199708252222.QAA13630@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Disk Controller Drivers To: pdwyer@tinet.ie (Pat Dwyer) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:22:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <34018564.3E15@tinet.ie> from "Pat Dwyer" at Aug 25, 97 02:15:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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