Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:18:36 -0500 From: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 Drivers Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001010121339.00c56470@mail.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001004080437.W1760@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001> <9D35FA2F8EFCD111BA5A00805FA75E87081EE7EB@fdntx001>
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OK, maybe I can't read (and I'm preparing to get ripped on replies) but I can't find any mention of ATA/100, ATA100, Ultra 100 or Promise in the 4.1.1 Release Notes. I'm going to install 4.1.1 on a machine later today but we're looking at buying new machines based on the Intel 815 chipset and before we do I want to make sure that FreeBSD will support that chipset and also support ATA/100 drives using the new controllers. I've asked about this chipset before and the only problems people seem to have were with video. These machines are going to be servers so we don't need anything more than text console interfaces so as long as we can get that then we don't have a problem. From what I've been reading on this list, it does appear that FreeBSD 4.1.1 does support ATA/100. I just wanted to see if there was a written reference for this. If we get the go ahead from here then we'll go ahead and move ahead with our purchases. Any information on this would be appreciated. Thanks, Oscar At 08:04 AM 10/4/00 +0930, Greg Lehey, you wrote: >On Friday, 29 September 2000 at 11:04:58 -0400, Jason Cribbins wrote: > > Is there any place I can find drivers for a Ultra 100 IDE PCI card from > > Promise Technology? > >Yes. Check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.1.1R/notes.html: > > The ata(4) driver now has support for ATA100 controllers. > > > According to the tech support dept they don't have drivers for any > > OS except Win9x, ME, NT, and 2k. > >Correct. A driver is part of an operating system, not part of the >board. The manufacturers only need to supply drivers for incomplete >operating systems. > > > I am told that Linux has the Ultra 66 drivers built in and this is > > enough to get an Ultra 100 working...but how to get get these > > drivers and can they be converted over to BSD? > >You can get the Linux drivers in any recent Linux distribution. It >would take a lot of time to convert them to BSD. I can't think why >you would want to do this. > >Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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