Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Ramiro,
Don't I qualify as a guru, I did after all write a book on it:
http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/
Thanks Ted for your mail. I am very happy of beeing able to speak with people that knows well the FreeBSD system.
Also, as for your problem with the CMD640, I myself have a dual-processor P100 board with this same IDE controller on it, that is running FreeBSD. I have a SCSI controller installed in it, the IDE controller is disabled. This controller was unfortunately used a lot in Pentium 60/90/100 motherboards.
:-(
To be honest the biggest problem with your post is that you didn't identify the make and model of machine or at least motherboard that you were working with. If for example you had said the motherboard was a "ASUS 123XYZABC456" then most anyone experienced here could have easily looked up the specs for the motherboard, saw it was a CMD640 job, and steered
Yes, sorry, I understand. Next time I will be more accurate. Indeed, when I posted my first message, I did not know that I was the owner of that ugly 640 disk controller. I discovered it when I booted linux and whatched kernel messages
you to the FreeBSD 3.xx series which has support for this controller. (which by the way, supports it by basically destroying all the go-fast disk code in the disk driver, leaving you with a usable, but dog-slow, system) In any case FreeBSD 3.x is obsolete now of course, so it's no good exposed to the Internet (you can in fact, crash it by hitting it with a stock nessus probe) but it is fine for pooting around with behind your firewall.
You are right Ted, when I had Linux installed on that pentium machine it worked even slower than a 486 machine that I also have.
Tonight, I downloaded FreeBSD 4.10 mininst cdrom and I successfuly installed in the dog-slow-pentium. I seems to work but it is slow as you said.
Thank you Brian, at least I know that there is people at the list, and If I have not received any answers apart from Ted's, I have only two ways of solving my problem:
1- install 4.10 and forget upgrading anymore. 2- throw the pentium away 3- install Debian again (it will mean that I have lost the fight) :-( .
4) Disable the onboard IDE controller and install a SCSI controller and disk, or even one of the caching IDE controllers.
By the way - if you are willing to pay shipping, many of us have basements full of junk computers that we don't use anymore that are undoubtedly better than your P100.
Thank you dear Ted for your offer. If I need it I will tell you in the future. This dog-pentium is a Fujitsu model that I hate, cause it is on a "landscape" shaped box (I do not know the english word, it is for staying on a table, and the monitor on top of it) and graphic card is buit-in on the motherboard. It is very difficult to work inside (there is no room)and make changes. It was a computer that a friend did not use and gave to me, to experiment. Another friend, is going to give me an old pentium 75 MHz soon, so I am praying for it not having a CMD 640 controller :-)
As you can see, I am collecting old machines just to play. I do the same with valve black and white TV sets. I have got my first TV with 35 years old working in a room at my house in the countryside :-)
Thank you for your help. Ramiro.
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