Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:14:46 -0400 From: "Cribbins, Jason" <Jason.Cribbins@qwest.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Message-ID: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E870846479E@fdntx001>
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>>>> 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. By what method can I update my source tree. I attempted to use CVS and found I don't have the disk ace to do that (which is why I need IDE support). I also downloaded new boot floppies from the 4.1.1-release folders on ftp.freebsd.org and this failed to allow me to see the drive and caused me to have an unbootable system. I ended up with a system that I had to manually load the kernel by typing the path and filename in at every boot before it will start. Eventually I found that renaming /kernel.GENERIC to /kernel would solve this. The system is in a state where nothing on it matters to me right now so reinstall via ftp is not a problem...only time consuming on my 144k connection. I am becoming an expert on ftp installs while I sleep :) > >> 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. > The /var/run/dmesg.boot shows no record of the care but I do see a line that states there is an unknown device in PCI0 which I am guessing is talking about this card being the only PCI card I am using right now. The system is not here where I am now so I don't have the exact line but I will get it the next time I try to install. It did give two hex codes which look like some sort of hardware id's that the card may be sending to identify itself. What should I be looking for in the dmesg.boot file? Nothing else in there seems to apply to this. Jason Cribbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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