Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:16:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Pat Dwyer <pdwyer@tinet.ie> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Controller Drivers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825201504.2930E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34018564.3E15@tinet.ie>
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Pat Dwyer wrote: > I hope I'm mailing to the right address. 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? Thanks Pat Dwyer. > Promise controllers are known rogues. Disable the onboard BIOS and try it. It would be better if you can trade that in for a more generic IDE controller if you really don't care that much for DOS/Windoze, since the code to actually support UltraDMA just went into -CURRENT and won't be available in release form for quite some time (I would hope). 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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