FreeBSD 6.2 installer doesn't see my SATA disk on Shuttle ST20G5

[Gilles Gravier]

Hello, Veronica.

Thanks for the info.

On my side, I've installed the latest Ubuntu (feisty) on it (previous 
version didn't work with the local SATA controler)... which works fine. 
It identifies the hard disk controler as an ULi 5287 from ALi 
Corporation. Under it, the SATA drive is seen as a SCSI (go figure)... 
and the disk is perfectly identified... The motherboard chipset is 
identified as RS480...

On the ATA man page, the ALi M5287 disk controler is marked as 
supported... On the HCL, there are several systems with ATI Radeon 
XPRESS 200 and RS48x chipsets that are supported...

So this is really strange.

Gilles.

Fluffles wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Veronica!!
>>
>> And where can I find the hardware compatibility list, please? I
>> haven't checked since I don't know where to look for it.
>>
>> The only thing I have is :
>> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/6-STABLE/hardware/amd64/index.html ...
>> but it doesn't name any specific motherboards... and the "supported
>> device" page doesn't even mention "radeon"... so I'm thinking this may
>> not be the complete list. Or FreeBDS is not supporting modern enough
>> hardware for me (though that ST20G5 is starting to be a good year old).
>>
>> Gilles.
>>     
>
> Hi Gilles,
>
> The URL you have is the HCL indeed. It does not list motherboard but
> components instead. You can check the HCL if for example a gigabit
> controller is supported under FreeBSD. In this case you have to look for
> ata(4) because you're looking for a generic ATA/SATA controller. If you
> click that link, you'll see this page:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable
>
> It's a bit confusing but ULi was previously named ALi (Acer Labs Inc) so
> ULi controllers are listed under ALi.
>
> The website you gave me provided no clue about the actual controller
> used. They provided no real "specifications" just marketing talk. ;-)
> But by using Google i found this dmesg under OpenBSD:
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-01/1400.html
>
> There we can see:
> vendor "Acer Labs", unknown product 0x5287 (class mass storage subclass
> SATA, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 31 function 1 not configured
>
> So the actual SATA controller is called ULi 5287, and this controller is
> listed in the ata(4) manpage. The author of that thread also said the
> SATA works under FreeBSD (but not OpenBSD). So i think your SATA will
> work fine.
>
> Your gigabit ethernet should work fine too, its BCM5751 which works with
> bge-driver:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bge&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-stable
>
> If you have an opportunity to test this board under FreeBSD be sure to
> submit the dmesg and list of what works / doesnt work to this list:
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
>
> Hope this helps. :)
>
> - Veronica
>   

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