This is what I'm trying to find out.  I did get an Ultra IDE drive to work
(Quantum ST 6.4BG)
with the regular on board IDE connection but I cannot take advantage of the higher
speeds
because I cannot get my Promise Ultra33 card to work with NetBSD.

Roger

Tom T. Thai wrote:

> I didn't know NetBSD supported Ultra_IDE.  Was this added at some point?
>
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Roger Simmons wrote:
>
> > On install (after inserting file system floppy fs
> >
> > vendor 0x105a product 0x4d33 (class mass storage, unknown sub class
> > 0x04, revision 0x01 at pci0 dev19 function 0 not configured.
> >
> > I then enter drive geometry information and get:
> >
> > Here we go
> >
> > Labeling disk wd0 ... disklabel: /dev/rwd0d :Device not configured done
> > Initializing root filesystem and mounting ...
> > newfs: /dev/rwd0a: Device not configured
> > ffs: /dev/wd0a on /mnt: Device not configured
> >
> > Populating filesystems with boot strapping vinaries and config files
> > uid 0 on /: out of inodes
> >
> > /: create / symlink failed no inodes free
> > tar: could not create file bin/cat: No space left on device
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > RS
> >
> >
> > Manuel BOUYER wrote:
> >
> > > On Nov 18, Roger Simmons wrote
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.2 on a box that has a Promise Ultra33
> > > > IDE controller and a Quantum ST 6.4GB drive(Ultra ATA).  After entering
> > > > drive geometry
> > > > I get file system not found and a lot of errors after that.
> > >
> > > Could you give more details about the errors ? especially about errors from
> > > wd/wdc.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> > > --
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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