Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:36:49 -0500
From:      David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>
To:        Mike Schreckengost <mrpolitics@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-RELEASE can't find SIL 0680 IDE controller
Message-ID:  <8066A2F8-9D3F-11D7-B389-0003937E39E0@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <Law9-F42KbZbm27coNS000a9f0c@hotmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Mike Schreckengost wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>    First off, let me express my appreciation for all of the hard work 
> that has been put into the 5.1-RELEASE of FreeBSD. I have installed 
> it, and am extremely happy with the way that it performs on my system.
>
> Having said that, here is my dilemma: I have a Silicon Image 0680 IDE 
> hard drive controller that (for the most part) works flawlessly in 
> FreeBSD. The problem is that it gets detected during the boot process 
> *ONLY IF* I first boot into another operating system (Linux, in my 
> case), issue the 'shutdown -r now' command, and then reboot into 
> FreeBSD. If I power up the system and immediately try booting FreeBSD, 
> it is not found.
>

I had a friend who had an ISA PNP sound card that did that exact thing 
with linux.
He had to initialize it with DOS then reboot and it worked...  Sounds 
like some
PCI initialization/detection bug?



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?8066A2F8-9D3F-11D7-B389-0003937E39E0>