interesting problem

[dave]

On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 08:53 AM, Soeren Schmidt wrote:

> 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 :)

Interesting... I thought for certain someone had told me there was a  
driver
for the Silicon Image Sil 3112A Controller in FreeBSD.

The disk is a Western Digital "Raptor"
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/serialata/ 
EnterpriseDrives.asp#spec

So far it works quite nicely with Mandrake 9.1.  I have another disk I  
can load
FreeBSD onto.  How would I go about getting/adding support for this  
controller?

Dave


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