Greetings. I was trying to install FreeBSD 7 on an old machine to make it a
fileserver. Machine is an AMD K7 1200 on an Abit AN-7 mobo (nforce2 400), which
has booted Freebsd 7.0 RC1 beforehand (for testing ZFS; only ACPI didn't work
as it hung it).
I recently bought a PCI SATA card on the cheap variety, Promise SATA300
TX2Plus, and a couple of 500GB Maxtors. Unfortunately, when any hard drive
(both of the 500's and an older 250 Maxtor which I use) is plugged to the SATA
ports of the pci card I get an instantaneous reboot when trying to boot the
bootonly cd (it doesn't reach the bootloader). If no disks are plugged it works
but hangs while booting (with ACPI disabled).
Things I tried:
- Booting another OS. Card works perfectly both in linux (2.6.24) and windows,
with the two hard drives visible.
- Leaving just one SATA drive connected to the whole system through the PCI
card. It doesn't matter which drive I let, both the 250G and the 500G make it
reboot.
- Swapping the power cable.
- Unplugging my former 2 drives to ease the load on the Enermax 365W power
supply. It works in Windows though, with everything on...
- Disabling both integrated SATA of the motherboard (SI3112 which works both in
linux and freebsd), and integrated firewire (just in case).
- Moving the PCI card to another slot. I only have another pci device, a
soundcard, and moving it changed the bios boot order (first the pci, then the
integrated sata or viceversa) with no change at all afterwards.
- Trying 6.3 livecd. Same insta-reboot.
- Updating the card's bios. There is no newer one, 1.0.0.34 is what came and
what's on the promise web.
Is there any way to make this card work on FreeBSD 7, or anything else that I
could try? I bought it specifically for that; I might be in time to return it,
though I'd have to buy another one on the same price range then (perhaps
Promise FastTrak TX2300, HightPoint RocketRaid 1520 or Adaptec 1210SA which I
seem to recall that doesn't work too well on linux). Otherwise I'd be more than
willing to help debugging it ^^.
Thanks everybody...
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