From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 08:04:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E4916A4CF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:04:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from natsmtp00.rzone.de (natsmtp00.rzone.de [81.169.145.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EC343D4C for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:04:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from tantalus.local (port-212-202-37-98.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.37.98]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5T84bwb022807; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:04:37 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alpha (alpha.local [192.168.1.2]) by tantalus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC30E1141905; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:04:39 +0000 (GMT) From: "Bjoern Koenig" To: Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:04:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcRdr74ZEwQ75dZYSXKKsRoxqc371A== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-Id: <20040629080439.BC30E1141905@tantalus.local> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable with SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:04:39 -0000 Ivan wrote: > hi, i'd like to install freebsd 4.10 on my computer and use it like a web > and mail server. my problem is that i need a promise fastrak sata 378 or > compatible driver to be able to install freebsd on my sata drive. is there > such a driver? i'm new to freebsd and unix. can anybody explain me how i > can solve this problem. thanks. 378 isn't helpful since Promise hides its chip model numbers well. FreeBSD 4.10 supports Promise Fasttrak-33, -66, -100, -100 TX2/TX4, -133 TX2/TX2000 [1]. So I think your controller is also supported; at least if you use single disks. Did you tried it already? Bjoern [1] http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware-i386.html#AEN34