Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Comoletti <rugose@www.delanet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: New install of FreeBSD 2.2.2 on Gateway PC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916204805.4310L-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199709170006.UAA05749@www.delanet.com>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Stephen Comoletti wrote: > Small update and another question. The intel udma controller is made > actually a Promise Technology Ultra33 IDE. Promise Tech claims not to > supprt freebsd or any other unix from the info gateway tech support could > provide me. Their only advice was to connect the drive to the motherboard > primary ide which freebsd did detect. That's what I thought. I remember this from before, but it didn't come to mind when you mentioned the Windows device name. > Question is, will there be any updates to freebsd that will allow > detection of the above card? or is it actually compatible now and I have > another problem? No, the Promise is wierd iron and probably wants NDAs to get native support, so I doubt it'll be supported. The old solution was to disable the card's onboard BIOS, but that may not be possible or may not help anymore. > Gateway tech said the difference from the promise controller and > the motherboard ide is as great as 3-1 ratio, a visually noticable speed > difference depending on what I use the pc for. I'd rather is the card if at > all possible. <heh> Only under Windows with their drivers. You'll be fine on the motherboard controller; set flags 0x80ff80ff on wdc0 and wdc1 for best results. This enables multi-block transfers and helps quite a bit. > So far I've checked the cables, the jumpers, and made numerous changes to > the bios in an attempt to get it to recognize the card. Any more ideas > before I pull it out? Nope; See if Gateway will give you a refund. 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
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