Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:05:25 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: Lin Jui-Nan Eric <ericlin.jnlin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N Message-ID: <20061018150525.GA42414@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <47713ee10610180746pb6daab7k4c8764e4bdb90230@mail.gmail.com> References: <47713ee10610180746pb6daab7k4c8764e4bdb90230@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:46:21PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote: > We have a Dell Powervault 745N and want to install FreeBSD 6.1-R. > But the installer complains that it can not find out any hard disk. > Since the dmesg contains ata2~5, I think the controller is recognized > by FreeBSD, but it cannot get the SATA drive. > > The dmesg and result of running pciconf -lv is in this PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/103624 The controller (which you label in your PR as "some funny RAID controller") is an Intel 31244: atapci0: <Intel 31244 SATA150 controller> mem 0xfe1ff000-0xfe1fffff irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0 ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0 Some history: this controller was discussed back in 2005: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-June/050827.html The appropriate code appears to have been committed to FreeBSD as of June 2005: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49 There was a DMA-related fix for this controller committed in February 2006: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49.2.7 Soren, do you have any ideas? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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