On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:13:05PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:52:09PM -0400, John R. Huston wrote: > > Hi, I am not very familiar with using mailing lists so if I have made > > a mistake in the format or scope of the message please correct me. I > > am pretty desperate for an answer by now so any help at all is really > > very appreciated. > > > > I have a Shuttle SD30G2 computer (Specs: > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/3knjrp ) which utilizes the intel ICH7 > > southbridge for sata devices. I am currently running FreeBSD > > 7.0-STABLE. The issue is that although the sata controller is > > apparently detected correctly (It shows up by name in dmesg) the > > devices attached to it do not show up when running 'atacontrol list'. > > There are no errors produced on a normal boot, but booting in verbose > > mode produces a few repetetive messages that may be telling, although > > I am unable to decipher them. > > First and foremost: I can assure you the ICH7 works fine on FreeBSD, > because all of our production servers use it. Of course, they are not > Shuttle systems. > > You didn't provide any detail of what hardware you have hooked up to the > motherboard. Do you actually have any SATA devices hooked up to the > SATA ports? What devices? > > This is why I ask: I see a Western Digital hard disk which shows up as > ad0 on that system. It's claiming ATA100 mode, but there are features > of the ICH7 (often called "Compatibility Mode" in BIOSes) which allow a > SATA device to appear as a PATA device to work with older operating > systems such as MS-DOS.
That is not his problem. If you look closer at his dmesg you will see that it detects both the PATA-controller part of ICH7 (as atapci0) and the SATA-controller part (as atapci1.) The detected disk is attached to atapci0 (as ata0-master.) Besides the reported disk model (WD800BB) is a PATA-model. (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=10) So if there are any SATA-devices attached to the ICH7 then they are not detected at all by FreeBSD. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"