FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

[Shaun Sabo]

since it is not 7-stable im interested in shouldnt i use the 7.0-RELEASE
livefs?

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:04:28PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote:
> > I checked to make sure that the hard disks are not in raid configuration
> and
> > there are not. i also checked and my bios are at the latest version
> > available (A11). also this is an XPS 600 not 700 and i have the correct
> > users manual in paper and digital formats. how would you like the dmesg
> to
> > be presented? i dont think i have any way to writing it to a thumb drive
> or
> > such devices from the installer. should i just take digital pictures?
>
> Digital pictures would be fine, unless you want to try the serial
> console route (chances are you don't have this sort of environment set
> up, so it's probably more effective to take photos).
>
> One thing: does Linux detect your disks on this system?
>
> I'd recommend downloading one of the recent RELENG_7 snapshot CDs,
> specifically the "livefs" one, and boot it.  dmesg doesn't come with the
> standard installation disc (disc1), hence why I'm recommending livefs.
> The snapshots are available here:
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804
>
> You probably want one of these two:
>
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-amd64-livefs.iso
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-livefs.iso
>
> dmesg should show some ATA stuff at the end, assuming you're familiar
> with FreeBSD's kernel output.  Something like this, assuming the
> physical disks are detected:
>
> ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150
> ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 12.01C02> at ata3-master SATA300
> ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata4-master SATA300
> ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata5-master SATA300
>
> You'll need to work backwards to figure out what is connected to what,
> e.g.:
>
> $ dmesg | grep ata2
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata2: [ITHREAD]
> ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150
>
> $ dmesg | grep atapci1
> atapci1: <Intel AHCI controller> port
> 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc-0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem
> 0xe8600400-0xe86007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
> atapci1: [ITHREAD]
> atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1
> ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1
>
> Otherwise, if none of this works, you'll need to somehow provide the
> full output of "pciconf -lv", which will be many screen fulls of data.
> You'll probably have to pipe it through "more", take a shot, hit
> spacebar, take another shot, etc...
>
> Please post URLs to the photos, rather than attaching them.  The mailing
> list software does not take kindly to large attachments.
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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