From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 8:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uswgne22.uswest.com (uswgne22.uswest.com [204.26.87.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC9637B4CF for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com (egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com [151.117.64.200]) by uswgne22.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9HFLD313437; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:21:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: from duntx003.litel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by egate-ne2.uswc.uswest.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9HFLDJ04266; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 10:21:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: by DUNTX003 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <46Y6MAYC>; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:21:34 -0400 Message-ID: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E870846479E@fdntx001> From: "Cribbins, Jason" To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:14:46 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>> 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