cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata ata-all.h ata-raid.c

[Søren Schmidt]

Hi

You have to set AHCI mode in the BIOS or the resources needed to use  
it wont be available, so yes its software but not ours :)

-Søren




On 14Apr, 2008, at 17:31 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Søren Schmidt <sos at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
>> They arent, unless your HW runs in legacy emulation mode, then some
>> chipsets emulates master/slave pairs.
>
> Hmm, isn't that a matter of software more than hardware, i.e. the  
> driver
> switches to "native" mode when FreeBSD boots?
>
> Or perhaps I should double-check that the BIOS is set to "AHCI mode"?
>
> The hardware is ICH8, except for the DVDR drive which is on a POS
> JMicron controller:
>
> des at ds4 ~% grep \^ata /var/run/dmesg.boot
> atapci0: <JMicron AHCI controller> mem 0xf9000000-0xf9001fff irq 17  
> at device 0.0 on pci4
> atapci0: [ITHREAD]
> atapci0: AHCI Version 01.00 controller with 2 ports detected
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata2: [ITHREAD]
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> ata3: [ITHREAD]
> atapci1: <JMicron JMB363 UDMA133 controller> port  
> 0xa000 
> -0xa007,0xa400-0xa403,0xa800-0xa807,0xac00-0xac03,0xb000-0xb00f irq  
> 18 at device 0.1 on pci4
> atapci1: [ITHREAD]
> ata4: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata4: [ITHREAD]
> atapci2: <Intel ICH8 SATA300 controller> port  
> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f,0xfc00-0xfc0f at  
> device 31.2 on pci0
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2
> ata0: [ITHREAD]
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2
> ata1: [ITHREAD]
> atapci3: <Intel ICH8 SATA300 controller> port  
> 0xd800 
> -0xd807,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xe000-0xe007,0xe400-0xe403,0xe800-0xe80f, 
> 0xec00-0xec0f irq 19 at device 31.5 on pci0
> atapci3: [ITHREAD]
> ata5: <ATA channel 0> on atapci3
> ata5: [ITHREAD]
> ata6: <ATA channel 1> on atapci3
> ata6: [ITHREAD]
> des at ds4 ~% sudo atacontrol list
> ATA channel 0:
>    Master:  ad0 <Maxtor 6B300S0/BANC1B10> Serial ATA v1.0
>    Slave:   ad1 <WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0/12.01C01> Serial ATA II
> ATA channel 1:
>    Master:  ad2 <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0/12.01C02> Serial ATA II
>    Slave:   ad3 <WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0/12.01C01> Serial ATA II
> ATA channel 2:
>    Master:      no device present
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 3:
>    Master:      no device present
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 4:
>    Master: acd0 <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716AL/1.00> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 5:
>    Master: ad10 <WDC WD4000AAKS-00TMA0/12.01C01> Serial ATA II
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 6:
>    Master: ad12 <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0/12.01C01> Serial ATA II
>    Slave:       no device present
>
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
>
>