On Dec 22, Peterhin launched this into the bitstream:
I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a year.
I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9 STABLE and 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise ATA100/133 OEM chip (pdc20265/69) I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, with a Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will FreeBSD work.?
I don't mean this in either a bad or saracstic way whatsoever, but more in the spirit of "give it a shot and see what happens"......so.........
Give it a shot and see what happens.
You won't lose anything by taking that approach, if the RAID controller is *not* recognized you won't be able to commence an installation.
Write your data to CD/DVD first, then "go for it"
Honestly, I can't think of a method more certain to verify whether or not your RAID controller is supported.
While you're at it, go for 5.3-RELEASE...why stop at the earlier version? There *is* mention (of course) of the Promise RAID controller at:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes-i386.html#PROC
and it looks sorta hopeful for you.
and I quote; [snip] The ata(4) driver now supports cardbus(4) ATA/SATA controllers.
A number of bugs in the ata(4) driver have been fixed. Most notably, master/slave device detection should work better, and some problems with timeouts should be resolved.
The ata(4) driver now supports the Promise command sequencer present on all modern Promise controllers (PDC203** PDC206**).
Note: This also adds preliminary support for the Promise SX4/SX4000 as a ``normal'' Promise ATA controller; ATA RAID's are supported, but only RAID0, RAID1, and RAID0+1
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Good luck! and do please let us know if you were successful or not.
Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Dec 22 23:27:00 CET 2004 11:27PM up 6 days, 4:17, 8 users, load averages: 1.40, 1.29, 1.26 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
