From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 0:50:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E2214CE0 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA01821; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:43:44 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id JAA26400; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:46:22 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C125685C.00308D92 ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:50:19 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: "Tom Lemaire" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:48:35 +0100 Subject: Re: Question on udma66 support Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, There is indeed a good upport for ATA66 in 4.0 (I use it with very good success on my home box). To use it, you will have to use a very recent snapshot of 4.0 (this is around 140 Megs) from current.freebsd.org. With it, you'll be able to boot directly from an ATA66 drive (mine is a MAXTOR) TfH "Tom Lemaire" on 04/01/2000 04:46:39 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Question on udma66 support I am attempting to install FreeBSD 3.3 on my PC without much success. (At boot time I get "panic: cannot mount root", and when I try to run fdisk from the CD configuaration menu it says I have no hard disk. (I am using the Walnut Creek distribution disks)). I suspect that the problem is caused by my hard disk controller, which is a udma66 controller on an Abit BP6 motherboard (with a Celeron 466 processor). I saw a posting on a newsgroup that says this controller is planned to be supported in 4.0. Do you know if this is true? If so, do you know when a "stable" version of 4.0 might be available? Thank you for your help. Tom Lemaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message