From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 13:36:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB353106594E for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arab@tangerine-army.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B598FC0A for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arab@tangerine-army.co.uk) Received: from [172.23.170.142] (helo=anti-virus02-09) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1LPdFo-0003Mk-7w for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:24 +0000 Received: from [92.238.154.32] (helo=Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1LPdFn-0003GH-N7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:23 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:37:22 -0000 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F78973929560F@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 In-Reply-To: <1232534153.1141.16.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Motherboard support Thread-Index: Acl7wQkeI/DJStZoSrCLX6GUnqB02gACz06w References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F78973929560C@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <1232534153.1141.16.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> From: "Graeme Dargie" To: Subject: RE: Motherboard support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:27 -0000 Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show =20 SATA Ports 4&5 No disks show Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB at ata7-master SATA300 I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. Regards Graeme=20 -----Original Message----- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au]=20 Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +0000, Graeme Dargie wrote: > Hello, >=20 > =20 >=20 > I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd > 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems >=20 > =20 >=20 > 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages > and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. >=20 > =20 >=20 > 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid > controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide > as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the > drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 > chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. >=20 > =20 >=20 > Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"