Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:12:02 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> To: Greg Gladwell <greg@theredpill.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 8237 SATA problems Message-ID: <m3n00lk6t9.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20040823153050.E93324@zion.theredpill.org> (Greg Gladwell's message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:30:50 %2B0100") References: <20040823153050.E93324@zion.theredpill.org>
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Greg Gladwell <greg@theredpill.org> writes: > I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on a machine with a VIA 8237 SATA controller. > Although the controller is detected on boot the same is not true for the drive > (a 200GB Seagate Barracuda). According to the man page the controller is fully > supported and having STFW I can't find anything useful to aid my cause. Having > looked through LINT I can't see that there's anything that would be useful to > pass at boot time, so does anyone have any suggestions? Is trying 5.3-BETA1 an option for you? It works for me, albeit not with drives attached to my VIA 8237 (still all parallel ATA and SCSI). -- Matthias Andree NOTE YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE MY MAIL IF YOU'RE USING SPF! Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)
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