Sysinstall does not define SATA

[oleg]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:19:25 -0800
  Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:21:52PM +0300, oleg wrote:
>> Got some trouble. The Sysinstall program of FreeBSD 8.0 release does
>> not define SATA hard drives. Can`t create slices.
>> But that machine works correctly by Windows.
>> See attached dmesg file.
> 
> The hard disks are seen by the system as classic PATA disks, 
>operating
> in PIO4 mode, which probably indicates your BIOS is set to run the
> controller in "Emulation" mode.  sysinstall should, I would think, 
>see
> these disks since the kernel does.
> 
> atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port 
>0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f 
>mem 0xf9f76000-0xf9f77fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> ad4: 305245MB <SAMSUNG HD321HJ 1AC01118> at ata2-master PIO4
> ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500418AS CC38> at ata3-master PIO4
> 
> I've never seen the vendor string "GENERIC ATA controller" before. 
> What
> exact motherboard or SATA controller card is this?  Can you provide 
>a
> link to it?
> 
> -- 
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at parodius.com 
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> | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ 
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> | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA 
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Dear Jeremy Chadwick, many Thanks for answer.


My hardware is:

AM2+ Elitgroup GF8100vm-m5 - sata, II-RAID....
AMD 64 X 2
DDR2 - 2Gb 800MHz
PCI Ex GeForce 9600 DDR2
SATA II 320 Samsung 321KJ 7200 16mb
SATAII 500 Seagate ST3500418as Barracuda 7200
DVD-RW Sony 5240S SATA

& link of the motherboad is 
 http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=MBE-GF8100VMM5

I can offer the listing of pciconf -lv, (see attached) if you have 
interest to help me. But that listing
received in sysadmin tools Frenzy on a base of FreeBSD-6.

My gratitude for you. Yours Oleg from Russia.
---
Ванкувер 2010. Новости Олимпиады. http://olympic.aport.ru
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