On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:19:25AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:21:52PM +0300, oleg wrote: > > Got some trouble. The Sysinstall program of FreeBSD 8.0 release does > > not define SATA hard drives. Can`t create slices. > > But that machine works correctly by Windows. > > See attached dmesg file. > > The hard disks are seen by the system as classic PATA disks, operating > in PIO4 mode, which probably indicates your BIOS is set to run the > controller in "Emulation" mode. sysinstall should, I would think, see > these disks since the kernel does. > > atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port > 0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem > 0xf9f76000-0xf9f77fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0 > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 > ad4: 305245MB <SAMSUNG HD321HJ 1AC01118> at ata2-master PIO4 > ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500418AS CC38> at ata3-master PIO4 > > I've never seen the vendor string "GENERIC ATA controller" before. What > exact motherboard or SATA controller card is this? Can you provide a > link to it?
Note to others on the list: mail to the OP results in an autoresponder (not an SMTP-level bounce) stating the following: > From: oleg <s...@aport.ru> > To: Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:19:29 +0300 > Subject: Re: Sysinstall does not define SATA > > This mail box closed So I'm not sure the OP is reachable or will see our responses. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"