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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:22:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com>
To:        pdwyer@tinet.ie (Pat Dwyer)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk Controller Drivers
Message-ID:  <199708252222.QAA13630@xmission.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <34018564.3E15@tinet.ie> from "Pat Dwyer" at Aug 25, 97 02:15:16 pm

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Pat Dwyer asked:

> I hope I'm mailing to the right address.

Yup.  Hello!

> I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium II with 64Megs of RAM.  When installing
> FreeBSD from CD the installation stops and tells me it can't detect my
> Hard Drive.  I think the problem is that it can't detect my Disk
> Controller - A Promise Ultra DMA Hard Disk Controller. I have drivers
> for this device for Win95,Win NT,3.X,OS/2, but nothing for any form of
> Unix.
> 
> Promise, via email, told me that they had no drivers and wouldn't
> release any specs of the device - so no joy there.  Are there any
> drivers available that I could download and get FreeBSD to install?

No, and now you know why, too.  Is this an IDE or SCSI controller?
We can certainly recommend a good replacement, and if GW2K doesn't
carry at least one, they can certainly refund the price of this
so-called device.

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com



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