From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 17:22:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA10560 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:22:58 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA10553 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:22:53 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA13409; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:51:53 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511301151.LAA13409@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: reposting again... To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 11:51:53 +0000 () Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199511291039.CAA10531@wiley.csusb.edu> from "William Wong" at Nov 29, 95 02:39:13 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1669 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk William Wong stands accused of saying: > A while back, I posted this message but didn't get any replies. > Maybe everyone thought that someone had already answered it? Well, > here it is again: Or perhaps nobody has any answers? 8( > I'm trying to get the DPT ESDI caching controller (PM3011) w/4 Megs working What does the controller claim to be? By the sound of it, it's not actually compatible with anything much. > with 2 Fujitsu 670 Meg Full Height (fast ESDI) drives. Well, at least that is They're the ones that sound like Insinkerators digesting a spoon when they start up? If so, they're quick alright 8) > fast ESDI part. After low level formatting the drives with the > supplied utilities from DPT and booting up from the FreeBSD boot > disk, the drives are seen as with an "unknown size, using BIOS > defaults". No matter how many cylinders I specify in the BIOS, Sounds like the controller's not playing the game. > Comments, anyone? Well, I have a spare ACB-2320D here you could have, and then you can pull the memory off the controller and put it in your system 8) Seriously; I think you'd be better off getting a different controller. I strongly suspect that the DPT is sufficiently incompatible that it's not going to work with FreeBSD. > William T. Wong -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[