i386/88808: V6.0 crashing on install with ICH7 RAID 5 enabled...

[David Rudolph]

>Number:         88808
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       V6.0 crashing on install with ICH7 RAID 5 enabled...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 10 19:40:13 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Rudolph
>Release:        6.0
>Organization:
Pixta
>Environment:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015P-TR.cfm           
>Description:
1) When installing with the ICH7 SATA RAID, configured in the BIOS for RAID 5, once the kernel begins display found devices, a Kernel Panic is generated for the SATA RAID device and need to reboot the install.

2)  Turning off the ICH7 RAID, via the BIOS, SATA drives displayed in dmesg yet when try and partion disks, system has "no disks avaialable"?

3) Last tidbit, Using 5.4 drives are seen and able to partition/format but Intel network interfaces are not available.  In 6.0 release both em0 and em1 are  configurable.

-David         
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