> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 April 2008 09:15 > To: Josef Karthauser > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real > > pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my > > FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk > geometry > > I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid disk upon > > booting it. > > > > Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information > on > > drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall the > > correct figures. > > I have no problems using AHCI on our Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-T+ > systems, which are Intel ICH7-based, and with disks ranging up to > 500GB. > There are no disk geometry issues I encounter. > > Here's an example of one of the heavily-loaded boxes. The boot/OS disk > is ad4. > > atapci1: <Intel AHCI controller> port 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc- > 0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem 0xe8600400- > 0xe86007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 > atapci1: [ITHREAD] > atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > ata2: [ITHREAD] > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 > ata3: [ITHREAD] > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1 > ata4: [ITHREAD] > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 > ata5: [ITHREAD] > > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150 > ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 12.01C02> at ata3-master SATA300 > ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata4-master SATA300 > ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata5-master SATA300
It looks like the problem was that there was no active partition set! Joe _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
