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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 and EIDE CDROM/Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM Date: 13 Dec 1994 04:17:25 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3cj78l$7m7@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <ngl1.20.2EECE4A4@psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <ngl1.20.2EECE4A4@psu.edu>, Nicolas Leshock <ngl1@psu.edu> wrote: >Sorry about the previous spastic post (DT's with the mouse button!) >I really would like some advice. > >I am buying a P5-90 from Micron right after the holidays and I would like to >avoid paying the SCSI premium ($$$ constraints) for a HD and CDROM. I >understand that FreeBSD can handle EIDE (treats it as IDE) HDs but what about >EIDE CDROM? Not unless someone writes one. >Is the Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM supported under FreeBSD? If not, does anyone >have any recommendations? I'd like to stick to OEM for support reasons! Depends. Diamond has many different version of the Stealth 64 DRAM card. Some are 'supported' and some are not. Diamond didn't even inform it's vendors when it changes the hardware out from under them. According to one vendor's tech. support staff they found out during Q&A after the machines quit working under Windows. After some hair-pulling someone noticed the cards were different. After a call to Diamond to get new drivers, they now work fine, but I think that's another reason to avoid Diamond. They don't tell anyone anything. Buy from a good vendor like #9. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.