Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:37:42 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ahci ata/sata controllers and bios (was: Re: Fwd (by request from fbsd-questions): Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!) Message-ID: <539c60b90702041837v3f6a0f20g2cb65e4f81af4d93@mail.gmail.com>
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Sorry about that last subject line, gents. Shouldn't have blindly forwarded it. Rest of message identical. Steve On 2/4/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> wrote: > On 2/4/07, S=F8ren Schmidt <sos@deepcore.dk> wrote: > > Steve Franks wrote: > > > Soren, > > > > > > I was instructed to forward this information to you by Ted > > > Mittelstaedt on the freebsd-questions list. I see the M5287 listed i= n > > > "man ata" but it doesn't work on my system. I found several other > > > emails with identical info from novemeber on the freebsd-stable list, > > > also unresolved. Those were for 6.2-RC2. Was working fine under > > > 6.1-release. dmesg output is below in the forward. > > Somewhere along the lines AHCI support for the 5287 was added, that is > > probably the problem. It might be nessesary to enable AHCI in the BIOS > > if possible. > > Otherwise a way to tell when this is actually working on the HW is > > needed as its clearly not enough that the BIOS says the resources are > > there.... > > > > -S=F8ren > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> > > > Date: Feb 2, 2007 11:43 AM > > > Subject: Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade! > > > To: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > > > > > > > > Everything looks spiffy after my upgrade except all my sata disks are > > > gone. Thank goodness the os in on a pata controller: > > > > > > atapci1: <AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller> port > > > 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f > > > mem 0xdffff800-0xdffffbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on pci0 > > > atapci1: AHCI controller reset failure > > > device_attach: atapci1 attach returned 6 > > > > > > So, I booted the 6.2 iso to find identical behavior, so it is not my > > > mistake in the upgrade process (unless the mistake was to upgrade at > > > all). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > Soren, > > I don't see any AHCI settings anywhere in my bios or in my sata raid > controller page. It is the latest bios. Is there a way to force the > driver to a standard ata device instead of ahci? > > Steve > Sorry about that last subject line, gents. Shouldn't have blindly forwarded it. Rest of message identical. Steve
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