From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 18 16:44:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA18185 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.delanet.com (www.delanet.com [208.9.136.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA18176 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rugose (modem110.delanet.com [208.17.58.173]) by www.delanet.com (8.8.4/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA11022 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:46:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199709182346.TAA11022@www.delanet.com> From: "Stephen Comoletti" To: Subject: Fw: Fw: New install of FreeBSD 2.2.2 on Gateway PC Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:38:47 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk That would be wonderful! Ok..novice question here. I am familiar with unix from a dialup shell viewpoint only..I know the basics on how to get around, edit files, compile, etc. But I do not know how to work on it from an admin/install viewpoint. With that in mind, Since I *was* installing from the cd which created the boot floppy from the image on the cd, will I need a new floppy image that will recognize the controller before I can complete my install from the cd? Also, which files will I need from -current, and where is -current for that matter. On a different but similar topic, I am planning to buy a tape backup before I go through with this. I was looking at the Iomega Ditto Easy 1.6/3.2 that uses the TR3 cartidges. It interfaces via the floppy drive controller. Yes it's slow, however it has the size i need and the price (a scsi based tape drive is out of my range, and most are really larger than I need anyway). Will that type of tape drive work in freeBSD? or should I go with the colorado 3200 (same thing, same media, but IDE interface instead)? BTW, thanx everyone for the help, I got more replies on what I should do here than anywhere else I've tried looking before I subscribed to the list. :) Steve ---------- > From: John S. Dyson > To: Stephen Comoletti > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Fw: New install of FreeBSD 2.2.2 on Gateway PC > Date: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 12:41 AM > > Stephen Comoletti said: > > Small update and another question. The intel udma controller is made > > actually a Promise Technology Ultra33 IDE. Promise Tech claims not to > > supprt freebsd or any other unix from the info gateway tech support could > > provide me. Their only advice was to connect the drive to the motherboard > > primary ide which freebsd did detect. > > > > Question is, will there be any updates to freebsd that will allow detection > > of the above card? or is it actually compatible now and I have another > > problem? Gateway tech said the difference from the promise controller and > > the motherboard ide is as great as 3-1 ratio, a visually noticable speed > > difference depending on what I use the pc for. I'd rather is the card if at > > all possible. > > > > So far I've checked the cables, the jumpers, and made numerous changes to > > the bios in an attempt to get it to recognize the card. Any more ideas > > before I pull it out? > > > I am about to commit reasonably complete support of the Promise Ultra33 IDE > interface. We will be able to support multiple PCI IDE interfaces in -current. > My measurements show that I am getting the entire 33MBytes/sec burst transfer > rate, with 10MBytes/sec continuous data rate to/from the disk platters, on the > outer zone, with a WDAC5100L disk drive. I currently have 7 IDE disk drives, > 1 SCSI disk drive, and 2 SCSI CDROM drives on my system, and it all works well > together. The two IDE interfaces on my system are the PIIX3 from the Natoma > chipset, and the PDC20247 from the Promise board. > > Don't expect for it to be in -current until this weekend. :-). > > John > dyson@freebsd.org.