Yesterday I received hardware to complete a Tyan S2882 based system. In just a few hours I had FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE / AMD64 running with all memory and processors accounted for.
I have two hotswap IDE RAID devices installed. I have an old ARAID-99 from the previous 4.x system where it worked fine. I have a new SOHORAID based on the same electronics, but with a SATA interface. Last night I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on the new SATA unit because the drives were new and empty. Later I intend the ARAID-99 to become the system volume and the SOHORAID to function as the data volume. Because the Tyan BIOS is weak concerning boot devices I had to go into a screen and make the SATA controller the #1 IDE device and the PATA controller the #2 drive. Then I was able to boot off the SATA image with the PATA unit installed. The BIOS screen detects the ARAID as the IDE primary master prior to the SATA boot cycle. FreeBSD does not. There is no /dev/ad0 as I expected. I've booted with blank drives in the ARAID and with older FreeBSD 4.x drives installed. fdisk / diskinfo / disklabel won't show me ad0. They all complain that the device does not exist. I tried to fake it out with makenod but then I got "device not configured". I'm not too strong on devfs yet and there is presently no man page for devfs.conf Aside from this issue, so far my experiment with 5.3 / AMD64 was a complete success. Is there some reason under 5.3 that SATA and PATA drives don't coexist well? I'm uncertain what to try next. Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 03:50:01 UTC 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC ACPI APIC Table: <A M I OEMAPIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 (1593.61-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0xf5a Stepping = 10 Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> AMD Features=0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> real memory = 2147418112 (2047 MB) avail memory = 2061897728 (1966 MB) MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 24-27 on motherboard ioapic2 <Version 1.1> irqs 28-31 on motherboard acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x5008-0x500b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 6.0 on pci0 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfeafc000-0xfeafcfff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfeafd000-0xfeafdfff irq 19 at device 0.1 on pci3 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: AMD OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered atapci0: <SiI 3114 SATA150 controller> port 0xa800-0xa80f,0xac00-0xac03,0xb000-0xb007,0xb400-0xb403,0xbc00-0xbc07 mem 0xfeafec00-0xfeafefff irq 19 at device 5.0 on pci3 ata2: channel #0 on atapci0 ata3: channel #1 on atapci0 ata4: channel #2 on atapci0 ata5: channel #3 on atapci0 pci3: <display, VGA> at device 6.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci1: <AMD 8111 UDMA133 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci1 ata1: channel #1 on atapci1 pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 7.2 (no driver attached) pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached) pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 10.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> mem 0xfc8b0000-0xfc8bffff,0xfc8c0000-0xfc8cffff irq 24 at device 9.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0 brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:2b:b6:86 bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> mem 0xfc8e0000-0xfc8effff,0xfc8f0000-0xfc8fffff irq 25 at device 9.1 on pci2 miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1 brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:e0:81:2b:b6:87 pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 10.1 (no driver attached) pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 11.1 (no driver attached) acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: does not respond device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: does not respond device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc8000-0xcc7ff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1593614519 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 0.976 msec acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0% ad4: 190782MB <SOHORAID SR2600 REV:0.91 Mirroring/Rev 0.91> [387621/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150 Mounting 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