amd64/172854: 9.0R doesn't recognize HDD on intel C602 chipset

[Jim Harris]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:44 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:10:01 pm Jim Harris wrote:
>>  Intel C60x chipsets have 2 disk controllers - the SATA controller
>>  (which most people are familiar with), and an integrated SAS
>>  controller.  The isci(4) driver for the SAS controller was added to
>>  FreeBSD in January - too late for 9.0, but did make it into 8.3 and
>>  will be in 9.1.  My guess is the HDD in question is attached to the
>>  SAS controller, and not the SATA controller.  I know that SuperMicro
>>  systems ship with the front disk slots connected to the SAS
>>  controller.
>>
>>  On 8.3, can you run "camcontrol devlist -v" and check whether the disk
>>  in question is on an isciX or ahcichX bus?
>
> I think 9.0 didn't have the PCI ID for the onboard SATA in RAID mode either?
>

John's correct.

I assume this missing PCI ID isn't the issue since you said your
problem on 9.0 occurred in both AHCI and RAID mode.  But if you do
move the HDD to the SATA controller and use 9.0, you will need to put
the SATA controller in AHCI mode.

Thanks,

-Jim