Re: Promise/IDE (and NICs too!)

1999-08-06 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > Thats the promise controller, try the ata driver instead an use the > following patch, let me know if it works... The patch applied cleanly... I still get: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

Re: Promise/IDE

1999-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Hoskins wrote: > and I just installed a Promise Ultra66. Here's my relevant kernel config > stuff (following LINT's example): > > pci0: unknown card DBZ4d38 (vendor=0x105a, dev=0x4d38) at 14.0 irq 9 Thats the promise controller, try the ata driver instead an use the following patc

Promise/IDE

1999-08-05 Thread Mike Hoskins
Hello, Just cvsup'd and running... FreeBSD snafu.adept.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Aug 5 04:51:08 PDT 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SNAFU i386 I have the following onboard... ide_pci0: at device 7.1 on pci0 and I just installed a Promise Ultra66. Here's m

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread Jake
> >Well, sortof, the FastTrak is AFAIK the exact same HW as the Ultra33, just > >with a more "advanced" BIOS that does the RAID stuff. The current planned > >support is to use it just as a Ultra33 controller, and then use ccd to > >do the RAID magic under FreeBSD. > > Interesting. So the BIOS doe

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:49 AM 2/25/99 , Søren Schmidt wrote: >It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: >> On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: >> > >> >Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the "do it by hand" code in >> >there and recommend removing the BIOS :( >> >> Are there any plans

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-25 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > > > >Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the "do it by hand" code in > >there and recommend removing the BIOS :( > > Are there any plans to support the Promise Fast Trak IDE RAID controll

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread John S. Dyson
Martin Cracauer said: > In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but from lookin

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 24 Feb 1999 18:39:36 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: > >Hmm, which suggests that I need to leave the "do it by hand" code in >there and recommend removing the BIOS :( Are there any plans to support the Promise Fast Trak IDE RAID controller ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdt

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but f

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-24 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <199902230725.caa02...@y.dyson.net>, John S. Dyson wrote: > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should wor

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-23 Thread John S. Dyson
Søren Schmidt said: > It seems John S. Dyson wrote: > > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should wo

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-23 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems John S. Dyson wrote: > Søren Schmidt said: > > > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just > > fine, and if the hard

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread John S. Dyson
Søren Schmidt said: > > It "should" work, but the promise support in the old system is, well, > hacky at best. I'm not sure if Promise supports more than one card > at a time, but from looking at the chip specs, it should work just > fine, and if the hardware works, at least the new driver will s

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Søren Schmidt writes: > > Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE > > (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_pci.c) driver? How close are you to > > completion? > > Yes. I have ATA disks running, and I'm close to having the ATAPI > part done also. So far things are looking

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Søren Schmidt writes: > > > > If you have questions, I might be able to answer, having just written > > the support for our new ata/atapi system > > > > Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE > (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_p

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Søren Schmidt writes: > > If you have questions, I might be able to answer, having just written > the support for our new ata/atapi system > Is this new ata/atapi system the rumored rewrite of the existing IDE (i386/isa/wd.c, /pci/ide_pci.c) driver? How close are you to completion? I

Re: Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Manuel Bouyer wrote: > Hi, > I initially intended to ask this to John Dyson, but I don't know how > to reach him. Maybe someone else on this list can anserw :) > I'm looking for documentations about the promise PCI IDE controller, > to add support for this in NetBSD. Does someone know how

Promise IDE board docs

1999-02-22 Thread Manuel Bouyer
Hi, I initially intended to ask this to John Dyson, but I don't know how to reach him. Maybe someone else on this list can anserw :) I'm looking for documentations about the promise PCI IDE controller, to add support for this in NetBSD. Does someone know how John got the informations for the FreeBS