On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
Sean Farley wrote:
I have recently assembled a new system with a SATA DVD drive.
Unfortunately, it seems to not be supported FreeBSD 7:
ata7: <ATA channel 5> on atapci0
ata7: SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet
ata7: [ITHREAD]
This is (semi-) fixed in 8-Current (reports sata/300 as sata/150 on
actual storage devices)
That would we be good enough for me.
I am using software (BIOS) RAID on a P5K-E/WiFi (Intel P35 chipset)
board. Sadly, the option to manually configure the DVD drive is only
available when in IDE mode.
P35's in general have some issues. For example I am still totally
unable to see my PATA drives if I have SATA drive(s) installed.
I remember reading about that on various web sites, and that it effected
various OS's. This is why I went with all SATA devices.
In the interim, is it possible to force the drive to IDE (really
UDMA) mode? I tried a few attempts at the kernel source to force it
to UDMA33 at the point of the warning in ata-chipset.c, but these
resulted in panics.
I have an old 7 patch if you want it.
Yes, I would. Thank you. Do you know if it will be MFC'd before
release? I can see some frustration for people that try to install
FreeBSD 7 from a SATA DVD drive.
Sean
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