Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:30:55 +0000 From: "Rick Nekus" <solarux@hotmail.com> To: ethanhsiao@jmicron.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Support ? and Jmicron (jmb363) PATA/SATA controller Message-ID: <BAY134-F248CBD0F2AE29FE7151202A1A10@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <OF5EB144D2.518A50B1-ON48257370.0017A0D4@jmicron.com.tw>
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c/o: Ethan(Jmicron), and freebsd-multimedia;freebsd-drivers :
-Thanks Ethan again, for your reply,
I'm forwarding this to the FreeBSD folks as a polite heads up for
their developers' in hopes we may eventually resolve this.
-I'm sorry, I don't have a detailed "dmesg",... in regards. I'm trying
some other tests right now, but I'll try n' get some output, short of
sending the Box down there. -But heck, I'll do that too if need be. :)
cheers.
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From: ethanhsiao@jmicron.com
To: solarux@hotmail.com
CC: sales@jmicron.com, fae@jmicron.com
Subject: RE: FreeBSD Support ?
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:03 +0800
Dear Sir,
Thanks for your suggestion.
The AHCI driver of FreeBSD 6.2-S still seems to have some
problems to detect SATA DVD/CD drive.
The ICH* (AHCI mode) has the same problem too.
Many Linux Distributions already support JMB36x like Fedora
Core 7, OpenSuSE 10.2, Ubuntu 6.10, and Mandriva 2007.1 etc
Best Regards,
Ethan Hsiao
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From: Rick Nekus [mailto:solarux@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:00 PM
To: fae; sales
Cc: solarux@hotmail.com
Subject: FreeBSD Support ?
Hello,
You mentioned on your site that Jmicron works with FreeBSD 5.5 and
above?
I am using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (with latest updates...)
Hardware:
Asus P5B-Premium Vista Edition.
-JMB363 sata/pata chipset
Pioneer "Sata" DVD (Model DVR-212D) Drive (using AHCI mode) connected
to the JMB363 satra controller port.
I have the SATA (hard)drives connected on the Intel ICH8R ports
(they are non-raided in AHCI mode, and I can install freebsd via ftp
but not by DVD/CD drive if its connected to the JMB363 Sata port.
In either case, with even the lateset FreeBSD kernel , patches,....
its doesn't even see a /dev/dvd. unfrotunately, this is unacceptable.
-This same above problems happens with "many" Linux Distributions,
(DVD/CD boots but then the system cannot install becuase the
installer,... cannot "see" the DVD drive anymore?)
however, one distro that worked fine recognizing the DVD drive
connected on jmb363 port is
"Sabayon Linux 3.4f "
In any case, as you may well know, there are a lot of other people
having the same problems
(just google "jmicron freebsd").
Can some of your development/driver team work closely with the FreeBSD
Driver Development team to fix this universal Linux/FreeBSD issue ?
Thanks,
respectfully.
Rick.
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