From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 15:34:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECA337B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e93MYbs04746; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:04:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 08:04:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Cribbins Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Message-ID: <20001004080437.W1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001>; from Jason.Cribbins@qwest.com on Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:04:58AM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 29 September 2000 at 11:04:58 -0400, Jason Cribbins wrote: > 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. > According to the tech support dept they don't have drivers for any > OS except Win9x, ME, NT, and 2k. Correct. A driver is part of an operating system, not part of the board. The manufacturers only need to supply drivers for incomplete operating systems. > I am told that Linux has the Ultra 66 drivers built in and this is > enough to get an Ultra 100 working...but how to get get these > drivers and can they be converted over to BSD? You can get the Linux drivers in any recent Linux distribution. It would take a lot of time to convert them to BSD. I can't think why you would want to do this. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message