After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

[João Carlos Mendes Luis]

Andrew P. wrote:
> On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny at jonny.eng.br> wrote:
> 
>>Andrew P. wrote:
>>
>>>Please, do some research (googling) before asking
>>>such questions, as they usually require much more
>>>info.
>>
>>     I did, indeed, and found absolutely nothing.  Do you have some info I
>>don't?  Please tell me.
> 
> 
> I just was annoyed that you didn't get the make
> of your IDE controller right.

Didn't I?

Looking to the ASUS site, the P4VP-MX board uses the VIA8325 southbridge:

http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=213&l1=3&l2=12&l3=53

Not 8233A as you said.

Also, FreeBSD detects the 8235 chip.  It cannot just detect the disks.

>>>Your motherboard has VIA P4M266A chipset, carrying
>>>VT8233A on board. Ata(4) driver is not completely newhat,
>>>in 6.0, and it has supported this very IDE controller for
>>>some time already. Please consult your motherboard's
>>
>>     I may be teorettically supported, but it is not working, and it is the only
>>operating system with problems.  The errors in 5.4 led me to believe the
>>problems were related to some kind of timing, but could get no further from this.
>>
>>     I did even search google to see if any other soul related any usage of
>>FreeBSD with this MoBo, just to find nothing.  Or worse, to find other people
>>with the same problems:
>>
>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-February/010211.html
>>http://listas.es.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd/2005-September/026449.html
>>
>>     I have even found one that say changing APIC would solve the problem, but
>>this did not solve mine:
>>
>>     I already did all this, and even disabled ACPI, which you did not
>>mentioned, but is almost always the big villain.  May we get back to -stable
>>now?  Or did I miss something I should have done before getting out of
>>-questions?  Maybe -hackers, and not -stable, since this is now like hacking to me.
>>
>>    Or maybe the Hardware compatibility list shoud be changed to note this MoBo
>>is incompatible with FreeBSD.
>>
> 
> 
> stable@ and current@ are for discussions specific to
> stable and current branches, which this issue is not.
> 
> Try disconnecting the HDD, placing the CDROM on
> primary master and trying to boot, please.

I cannot do this right now, will try it tomorrow.