Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:43:45 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: yoke an <yokean1@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA) Message-ID: <20050119103214.A27409@pooker.samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY13-F27B27793E3C545723B0176E9800@phx.gbl> References: <BAY13-F27B27793E3C545723B0176E9800@phx.gbl>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, yoke an wrote: > > Hi , > > We have recently purchased Tyan Transport GX21 (B2735G21S2) with Tiger > i7501R S2735-8M motherboard. I'm trying to install FreeBSD v4.8 but it > cannot detect my hard disk during the installation. I think the > problem should be the SATA driver. Coz I'm currently using SATA > instead of IDE/ATAPI. > > Is FreeBSD v4.8 support SATA or any available free downld driver for > SATA? Can I use "ICH5-R SATA Chip driver " for supporting FreeBSD > v4.8? If yes, where can i downld it? > > HW spec: > HDD model: Seagate, ST380013AS. > Motherboard : Tiger i7501R S2735-8M > > Hope the above info is sufficient for you. > > Thank you so much > > rgds Ann As others have said, you probably are better off with getting your application to run under 5.3. However, assuming that this motherboard is using an ICH5 southbridge, you should be able to configure the BIOS to run the SATA channels in legacy mode. To do this, go to the IDE Configuration menu and make sure that the 'Enhanced mode' setting is off and that Legacy Configuation setting is either in 'S-ATA' only or 'P-ATA and S-ATA'. This will make your sata disks appear to be normal IDE drives, but you'll loose access to one or both of your normal IDE channels, depending on which option you pick. I'm not guaranteeing that this will work, but it's easy to try. If you decide to go with FreeBSD 5.3 then you'll want to reset the BIOS to Enhanced mode. Scott
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