From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 10:30:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb3-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 443A337B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 10:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14844 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 2000 17:30:20 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-3 with SMTP; 10 Oct 2000 17:30:20 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001010122422.00b6d100@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:25:26 -0500 To: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001010122353.00b0a340@mail.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, apparently I can read and was able to find the line: The ata(4) driver now has support for ATA100 controllers. In the 4.1.1 Release Notes. I do wonder what controllers the new at(4) driver supports. Oscar At 12:23 PM 10/10/00 -0500, Oscar Ricardo Silva, you wrote: >>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:18:36 -0500 >>To: Greg Lehey >>From: Oscar Ricardo Silva >>Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers >>Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >>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. >> >>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. >> >> From what I've been reading on this list, it does appear that FreeBSD >> 4.1.1 does support ATA/100. I just wanted to see if there was a written >> reference for this. If we get the go ahead from here then we'll go >> ahead and move ahead with our purchases. >> >>Any information on this would be appreciated. >> >> >>Thanks, >> >>Oscar >> >> >>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. >>> >>>Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message