From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 23 22:38:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA02721 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:38:47 -0700 (PDT) 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 WAA02716 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA11564; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:38:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stephen Comoletti cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: New Install In-Reply-To: <199709230455.AAA04322@www.delanet.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 Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Stephen Comoletti wrote: > > Try moving things onto the motherboard controller and yank the Ultra33 > > out. > > Already tried that with no success. Another fallback here is that the > quantum drive is one of the new ultra ata types..yeah it's nice and > fast..but so far..only for win95. The motherboard ide isnt fully compat > with ultra ata and has a minor conflict which causes the drive d to be > assigned to a non existant device (yes, in windows). So my hd now has > drives c,e,f instead of c,d,e. Gateway acknowledged this bug and is working > with intel on it however since the drive was designed for the ultra ata > controller, they arent putting any real effort into it. A proprietary *disk*? Yuck! I can understand why nothing can read it, it really doesn't comply with the ST506 interface. > Since the probe is detecting the ultra33 card as a valid pci pnp device, > I'm assuming there is a way to make it recognize the drive itself..the > other reason for wanting the ultra33 card is that it supports lba and I > will not have the 1024 cylinder limitation. But I bet the ultra card doesn't speak ST506. Hm. Looks like you're stuck waiting for the Ultra33 driver to come into -current. 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