From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 7 15:53:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA01068 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from junior.lgc.com (junior.lgc.com [134.132.10.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01052 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 15:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dympna by junior.lgc.com (8.6.9/lgc.1.26) id RAA08962; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:51:22 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 17:51:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@dympna To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: "Timothy P. Sparks" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release Notes 2.1, Ref Hard Drives/Controllers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Timothy P. Sparks wrote: > > > I have been reviewing the release notes for 2.1 FreeBSD and I didn't see > > any info regarding built-in PCI Enhanced IDE controller. Does FreeBSD > > support this. > > Not a problem. There are some IDE controllers (notably the Promise 2300 > series) that flat out don't work, though. Best way is to try. Maybe I'm missing something here, do you mean a Promise 2300 on the motherboard or PCI doesn't work (Didn't know there was either one of them)? If so, that is a possibility, however if you mean the Promise 2300 VLB doesn't work I'd beg to differ. (I will assume that reciept of this message will do for validation) > > > to dedicate to this system. When I load the boot floppy, neither the hard > > drive nor controller are recognized. Am I stuck with going out and buying > > a bunch of SCSI hardware or are there options available booting with the > > "-c" option to account for the EIDE controller? A prompt reply would be > > greatly appreciated. If I'm stuck buying the hardware then I'd like to > > do it tonight if possible. Thanks in advance for your assistance. > > Can we see the boot messages, specifically for the wdc0 device? > > What controller does this machine have? Is this the machine given above? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > -- Rob Snow Sr. Systems Administrator Landmark Graphics Corporation