From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 13 11:43:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19404 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA19397 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA01228; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:42:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Scott cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bscott@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au Subject: Re: hard disk controller not being found In-Reply-To: <199708110612.QAA03110@orac.albury.net.au> 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 Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Brian Scott wrote: > I'm having a strange problem with an install of FreeBSD on a new machine I > have bought recently. > > The machine is basically a 6x86 machine with a 'VXpro' motherboard having > PCI and ISA bus connections. The IDE interface is on the motherboard. To > quote the (extemely limited) documentation that comes with it: "Onboard PCI > bus master IDE interface with two connectors, supports four IDE devices in 2 > channels and the PCI IDE controller, supports PIO mode 0 to mode 4 at > maximum transfer rate of 16.67MB/s and bus master IDE DMA mode 2". I dont > know if this gives anyone any clues about the interface. The floppy disk > controller is also inbuilt on the motherboard and comes up fine. OK, standard equipment. > I had some basic fiddling with trying to config up a system (using another > machine) trying to refer to the hard disk controller as being on pci? rather > than isa?. No joy to be had there by the look of things. Is there any sort > of definitive guide to doing strange things with a system config? I've done > plenty of hacking them around in the past for various machines that I've put > FreeBSD onto. I must admit that I couldn't find much information about the > finer points of the config file when I went looking. FreeBSD doesn't have explicit support for PCI IDE controllers, but IDE controllers are supported through the wdc device. I have a couple of messages about a beta version of a driver that can run these controllers in PIO modes. If you're interested in testing it and have a way of making backups (The messages warn that the driver can cause hidden data corruption) I can forward these to you. > p.s. please CC any replies to bscott@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au - I'm > suspicious about how reliable my ISP is at present. Will do. 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