Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:41:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Borden <j_borden@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on an Ultra Ata Hard drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904081240240.25113-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990408190604.27810.rocketmail@web118.yahoomail.com>
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, John Borden wrote: > It is a Promise Ultra 66 controller. The part number is 600934, if > that helps any. A better description is at > http://www.promise.com/Products/idecards/u66.htm. Promise controllers are known fruity. Try turning the BIOS of and installing 3.1 instead of 3.0. > The hard drive says it is a Western Digital WD Expert 418000 EIDE. The > invoice from Gateway says it is a 7200RPM Ultra ATA hd. > I'd like computers a lot more if they didn't have hardware. I'd like PCs more if the hardware wasn't so crappy. Thusly my next computer is a blue&white Mac G3. :-) > > I'm trying to install 3.0 on a Gateway G6 400. It has a 18 G ultra > ata > > hd, which is not reconized when I boot from the CD. I type in the > > address as an IDE device, but it still doesn't work with it. (disk > not > > found error) I've tried to install dos 6.0 on the future freeBSD > > partition, but it won't reconize the CD drive. > > Is it possible to use the hard drive with freeBSD? I've tried > booting > > from the floppies with equal success. > > What brand/model of controller? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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