Re: [9fans] Questions on Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 controller and NVidia GeForce 2

["Stephen Blake" <stepheneblake@earthlink.net>]

[This is an email copy of a Usenet post to "comp.os.plan9"]

On Thu, 02 May 2002 11:02:29 -0400, Russ Cox wrote:

>> 1) The disk I want to put it on is hooked to a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100
>> controller. In linux, this card is supported by the Promise PDC202xx
>> driver. I notice on the supported hardware page that a Promise PDC20262
>> driver exists. Will this work with my card? I have downloaded the
>> install disk to try it out, and this disk doesn't show up. Is this
>> because it's an unsupported card, or because I have chosen the wrong
>> options when creating the install disk?
>
> It certainly seems possible that your card could be made to work.  Try
> editing plan9.ini on the install floppy to comment out mouseport and
> vgasize:
> 	#mouseport=...
> 	#vgasize=...
> and then boot again.  This time you'll get a shell prompt. Run
> 	pci
> and let us know what the output is.

OK, I'm hand typing this, so there may be mistakes. If there's an easy way
to do the equivalent of:

 # mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
 # pci > /mnt/floppy/pci_out.txt
 # umount /dev/fd0

With the boot floppy, we might get more reliable results. I am a plan 9
newbie, though, and couldn't figure out how to do it.

Anyway, here it is (I hope my news software doesn't mangle this):

06.00.00 8086/1130   0
06.04.00 8086/1131   0
06.04.00 8086/244e   0
06.01.00 8086/2440   0
01.01.80 8086/244b   0 4:0000ffa1 16
0c.03.00 8086/2442   3 4:0000ef81 32
0c.05.00 8086/2443  10 4:0000efa1 16
01.80.00 105a/4d30   9 0:0000dfe1 16 1:0000dfad 16 2:0000dfa1 16
3:0000dfa9 16 4:0000df01 64 5:fc9e0000 131072
04.01.00 1102/0002  10 0:0000df81 32
09.80.00 1102/7002   0 0:0000dff1 16
02.00.00 10b7/9200  11 0:0000dc01 128 1:fc9cfc00 128
03.00.00 10de/0150  11 0:fd000000 16777216 1:e8000008 134217728
03.00.00 10de/0150  11 0:fd000000 16777216 1:e8000008 134217728

That means absolutely nothing to me, I hope it means something to someone
else. :)

> If you're impatient, you could try plugging the disk into your
> motherboard controller.  We only detect the motherboard controllers by
> default -- the others need to be identified explicitly.

I can't. Part of my windows installation resides on that disk. (It's for
my wife, I swear! ;)

>> 2) My video card is an NVidia GeForce 2. It's not listed as explicitly
>> supported or unsupported. Will this work with one of the other NVidia
>> drivers? When I ran the install, I got a graphics screen, but that
>> could just have been a VGA or VESA screen. Any hints?
>
> You're all set.  There are no VGA or VESA drivers.

Excellent, thanks.

> Russ

I have another question: What's the protocol for this newsgroup/mailing
list. Is 9fans mirrored to the newsgroup, or the newsgroup mirrored to the
mailing list, or what? Should I post to the newsgroup or the mailing list,
or both? I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ or Wiki.

Thanks!

Stephen