From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 16 19:56:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scraprap.com (adsl-216-103-213-248.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.213.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F82A37B524 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:56:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsoule@webcrossing.com) Received: from [10.0.0.103] (HELO sparky) by mail.scraprap.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.3) with SMTP id 62180; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:56:36 -0700 From: Jeff Soule Reply-To: jsoule@webcrossing.com Organization: Web Crossing Inc. To: jon miller , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Support Question Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:55:26 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041619563601.08194@sparky> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I ran into this problem myself. freeBSD does not currently support ultra/66 controllers. Depending on the controller you have you can still install Linux through some convoluted steps. 1> plug your hard drive into the built in IDE interface on your motherboard and install Linux 2> Rebuild the kernel with the appropriate ultra/66 support and possibly a patch also 3> Move the drive back to the ultra/66 controller and with any amount of luck it will start and run :-) /Jeff On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, jon miller wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for an alternative to linux, since I have a new > computer that linux isn't installing onto currently. I have a ultra/66 > controller and the linux installations can't see my hard drive. Does > freeBSD support this? I didn't see it on the > www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html site... > > thanks, > Jon Miller > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeff Soule System Administrator: Web Crossing Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message