interesting problem

Soeren Schmidt sos at spider.deepcore.dk
Fri Jun 6 06:53:49 PDT 2003


It seems David Leimbach wrote:
> So... I have this nice SATA drive and controller which I believe is 
> supported
> by FreeBSD but not in the default build for releases.
> 
> What is the best way to cross-build a version of FreeBSD's release ISOs 
> that
> will include drivers not included in the default distribution?  Or is 
> it possible
> to supply a driver during sysinstall time to have FreeBSD recognize my 
> hard disk?

There is no ATA support that is not included in the stock GENERIC
kernel, so I'm not sure what you mean here ?
It would be helpfull to know what controller and disk we are talking
about, 'a' SATA controller and disk isn't really helpfull :)

-Søren


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