Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Stephen Comoletti <rugose@www.delanet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: New Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970923223744.11475D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709230455.AAA04322@www.delanet.com>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Stephen Comoletti wrote: > > Try moving things onto the motherboard controller and yank the Ultra33 > > out. > > Already tried that with no success. Another fallback here is that the > quantum drive is one of the new ultra ata types..yeah it's nice and > fast..but so far..only for win95. The motherboard ide isnt fully compat > with ultra ata and has a minor conflict which causes the drive d to be > assigned to a non existant device (yes, in windows). So my hd now has > drives c,e,f instead of c,d,e. Gateway acknowledged this bug and is working > with intel on it however since the drive was designed for the ultra ata > controller, they arent putting any real effort into it. A proprietary *disk*? Yuck! I can understand why nothing can read it, it really doesn't comply with the ST506 interface. > Since the probe is detecting the ultra33 card as a valid pci pnp device, > I'm assuming there is a way to make it recognize the drive itself..the > other reason for wanting the ultra33 card is that it supports lba and I > will not have the 1024 cylinder limitation. But I bet the ultra card doesn't speak ST506. Hm. Looks like you're stuck waiting for the Ultra33 driver to come into -current. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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