From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 12:28:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D9C37B502 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9ELRkE02013; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:27:46 -0700 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Cribbins Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Message-ID: <20001014142746.M1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EEC5B@fdntx001> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EEC5B@fdntx001>; from Jason.Cribbins@qwest.com on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:33:38AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 4 October 2000 at 9:33:38 -0400, Jason Cribbins wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> If you don't, I may ignore the reply. Please read this message, at the bottom of every reply I send to -questions. >>> Is there any place I can find drivers for a Ultra 100 IDE PCI card from >>> Promise Technology? >> >> Yes. Check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.1.1R/notes.html: >> >> The ata(4) driver now has support for ATA100 controllers. > > I am somewhat new to this. I am running 4.1-Stable. Can I just download > some file to add or patch my current system built? No, that's not the way we do things. We prefer to keep things stable, so you need to update your -STABLE source tree. Of course, if it's recent (later than 4.1.1-RELEASE), it already has the support. > I am also told that the Ultra66 driver will work on the Ultra100 > card. How can I redirect the Ultra66 driver to be associated with > the Ultra 100 card when detected? You don't need to do anything. Start it up and look at the dmesg output (saved in /var/run/dmesg.boot) to see what the driver found. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message