Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:29:23 -0700 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Message-ID: <20001014142923.N1489@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001010121339.00c56470@mail.utexas.edu>; from oscars@mail.utexas.edu on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:18:36PM -0500 References: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001> <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001> <20001004080437.W1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001010121339.00c56470@mail.utexas.edu>
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On Tuesday, 10 October 2000 at 12:18:36 -0500, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > At 08:04 AM 10/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey, you wrote: >> On Friday, 29 September 2000 at 11:04:58 -0400, Jason Cribbins wrote: >>> 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. >> >>> According to the tech support dept they don't have drivers for any >>> OS except Win9x, ME, NT, and 2k. >> >> Correct. A driver is part of an operating system, not part of the >> board. The manufacturers only need to supply drivers for incomplete >> operating systems. >> >>> I am told that Linux has the Ultra 66 drivers built in and this is >>> enough to get an Ultra 100 working...but how to get get these >>> drivers and can they be converted over to BSD? >> >> You can get the Linux drivers in any recent Linux distribution. It >> would take a lot of time to convert them to BSD. I can't think why >> you would want to do this. > > OK, maybe I can't read (and I'm preparing to get ripped on replies) > but I can't find any mention of ATA/100, ATA100, Ultra 100 or > Promise in the 4.1.1 Release Notes. Hmm. Did you check the URL I mentioned above? > I'm going to install 4.1.1 on a machine later today but we're > looking at buying new machines based on the Intel 815 chipset and > before we do I want to make sure that FreeBSD will support that > chipset and also support ATA/100 drives using the new controllers. > I've asked about this chipset before and the only problems people > seem to have were with video. These machines are going to be > servers so we don't need anything more than text console interfaces > so as long as we can get that then we don't have a problem. Well, I suppose my reply comes too late, then. Did you have any problems? 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
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