Re: two ata-related problems
Erik Trulsson wrote: > So, yes, FreeBSD 8.1 *should* be able to recognize > an ATAPI Zip drive. No great urgency -- I won't need it during the install and no specific plans even after that -- but any ideas how to go about tracking this down? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: two ata-related problems
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:11:02AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > per...@pluto.rain.com writes: > > > Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 > > (yes, I know it's old): > > I have a similar machine running as a lab tool. > > > 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? > >I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS Setup recognizes > >it. (It and a CDROM are on the secondary IDE channel; I've tried > >with each of them as master and either way the CD is recognized > >but the Zip is not.) > > The default kernel definitely won't, but with the vpo device enabled, it > probably will. There's a kernel module for that, so you can try > "kldload vpo". Why would you need vpo for an ATAPI device? It is only for parallell devices. You should only need the 'ata' and 'atapifd' devices (both of whoch are included in GENERIC) to handle an ATAPI Zip drive. So, yes, FreeBSD 8.1 *should* be able to recognize an ATAPI Zip drive. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: two ata-related problems
per...@pluto.rain.com writes: > Two questions about installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a Dell Precision 420 > (yes, I know it's old): I have a similar machine running as a lab tool. > 1. Should FreeBSD 8.1 be able to recognize a 100MB ATAPI Zip drive? >I'm not finding it in the dmesg, although BIOS Setup recognizes >it. (It and a CDROM are on the secondary IDE channel; I've tried >with each of them as master and either way the CD is recognized >but the Zip is not.) The default kernel definitely won't, but with the vpo device enabled, it probably will. There's a kernel module for that, so you can try "kldload vpo". > 2. It currently has the original A01 BIOS. I'm going to have to >update that, because it doesn't recognize the 320GB drive I've >added as a new boot drive. With the 320GB installed as unit 0 >(master) on the primary IDE channel, the A01 BIOS won't even >recognize the previously-working 40GB drive which is now unit 1; >so the BIOS disables that channel entirely keeping FreeBSD from >seeing those drives either. > >A BIOS upgrade should be straightforward, but while Googling >I ran into a posting where someone apparently had a lot of >trouble with a BIOS upgrade for one of these of boxes. Thus >the question: Has anyone here had any experience, either good >or bad, with running FreeBSD on one of these with an upgraded >BIOS? If so, which version? I found A06, A07, A10, A11, and >A13 on Dell's FTP site. A01 gave me a bunch of problems, although I don't really remember the details (it was more than five years ago!) at this point. BIOS upgrades were no problem at all. I stopped upgrading the BIOS once everything worked -- at least, everything I noticed. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: two ata-related problems
Hi, For point no. "1" you can check if the drive is supported @ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html. Sorry, no idea about point no. "2" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
