From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 21:39:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA06545 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA06540 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03163; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:39:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: tgiocond@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra ATA Hard Drives and controllers with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <33F669DA.DFED8171@idsonline.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Tom Gioconda wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE on a Quantum Fireball ST > 6.4 gig Ultra ATA hard. It is controlled by a Promise UTLRA33 Ultra ATA > controller. Promise controllers are known rogues. Disable the onboard BIOS and try again. > Does this mean I'm screwed and I'll have to buy a small hard drive just > for this OS? All I need is a 500M-1gig FreeBSD partition. Please reply > directly to me; I don't subscribe to this list. YOu can; it's not a bad idea to be honest. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo