From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 24 12:07:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA29934 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA29917 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA12916; Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:07:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kenny Hanson cc: "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: 440LX Chipset In-Reply-To: <91DD7FDA88E4D011BED00000C0DD87E714DFBF@pds-gateway.pdspc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Kenny Hanson wrote: > Is there support for the 440LX chipset in FreeBSD yet? > I have an Intel Atlanta 440LX with a PII 300 that I would > love to see crank some FreeBSD, but two subsequent > installs have failed miserably. I'm only guessing it's the > chipset, though I always thought these things were "backwards > compatible". For grins, here's what I have in the system: What were the problems you were seeing? I have an older email that indicates there are some BIOS bugs in the 440LX that prevent the system from booting properly. > Now I've tried to turn off the Ultra DMA in the bios and even tried > a non-ATA33 drive with the same results. Any thoughts/comments? The Ultra33 drives are OK, they'll run fine in standard mode. If you really want to tap them you have to run -current. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major