Re: Asus A7N8X-E w/SATA and SCSI, 4.10 sys install snafu

[Lee Harr]

Does anyone have experience with this motherboard, in particular using
sata drives?  Any ideas what's going on, and how to proceed?
I was hoping this was going to be relatively painless :-(

Do I need to bag 4.10 and go with 5.3 to get this to work?

I have an A7N8X-deluxe. And quite a few problems, actually.
Have never tried sata, however.
For me, a 4.10 cd will not boot. There has been a thread about
this on -stable for a while, and it turns out the problem is in the
firewire support somewhere. I built a kernel with the firewire
removed and it boots ok.
I just tried booting a 5.3-beta3 cd and that will not boot either.
It seems to quit around the same place the 4.10 boot cd
stops, so I wonder if it is the same problem...
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Asus A7N8X-E w/SATA and SCSI, 4.10 sys install snafu

[Gary Aitken]

Just built a new system:
  Asus A7N8X-E motherboard, Athlon XP 2600+
  2 SATA seagate drives
  Old buslogic SCSI controller with 2 drives, a cd, and a tape.
  ATI compatible radeon 9000 agp 4x video card
The scsi disks have win nt images on them, from a previous system
so I can continue running it until I get a new one with both freebsd
and nt going off the sata drives.  When booted, the nt system runs fine.
I configured the mobo to boot from cd first, popped in the freebsd
4.10 cd.  However, it boots the nt images off the scsi disks instead.
So I unplugged the power from the scsi disks.  It still wouldn't
boot off the scsi cd.  Is the mobo bios too dumb to recognize a
scsi cd?
So I popped in a 4.10 boot floppy and tried again.
Turns out the boot floppy was bad,
Boot: 0:fda(0,a)/floppy
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Boot:
I tried to force a boot from the cd, but I'm not sure what to use
for the bios device and the device ids.  The CD is configured as
SCSI device 6.  I tried:
Boot: 1:da(6,a)/kernel -C
Invalid label
Invalid label
No /kernel
BIOS shows the following devices:
Bus Device Function  Vendor/Device  Class  Device ClassIRQ
Num  Num Num
 02   0   10DE   0067   0C03   USB 1.0/1.1 OHCI Ctlr 3
 02   1   10DE   0067   0C03   USB 1.0/1.1 OHCI Ctlr 5
 02   2   10DE   0068   0C03   USB 2.0 EHCI Ctrlr   10
 04   0   10DE   0066   0200   Network ctlr  5
 05   0   10DE   006B   0401   Multimedia Device 9
 06   0   10DE   006A   0401   Multimedia Device11
 09   0   10DE   0065   0101   IDE controller   14
 14   0   11AB   4520   0200   Network controller5
 16   0   104B   8130   0100   Mass Storage controller  11
 1   11   0   1095   3112   0104   RAID controller  11
 30   0   1002   4966   0300   Display controller4
   ACPI controller   9
The device on pci1 at 6.0, irq 11 is the buslogic scsi controller.
So I made new boot floppies, which booted properly.
The boot and initial probe shows the following:
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS drive D: is disk2
BIOS drive E: is disk3
BIOS drive F: is disk4
(makes sense, given that the system has a floppy (A),
two scsi disks (C,D or E,F) and two sata disks (ditto).)
md0: Preloaded image /mfsroot
md1: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00fdea0
npx0: math processor on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: Host to PCI bridge on motherboard
pci0: PCI bus on pcib0
pci0: unknown card vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01eb at 0.1
pci0: unknown card vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ee at 0.2
pci0: unknown card vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ed at 0.3
pci0: unknown card vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ec at 0.4
pci0: unknown card vendor=0x10de, dev=0x01ef at 0.5
isab0: PCI to ISA bridge vendor=0x10de device=0060 at device 1.0 on pci 0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
pci0: unknown card (vendor=10de, dev=0x0064) at 1.1 irq 4
ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem=0xe1085000-0xe1085fff irq 3 at device 2.0 
on pci0
usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0: OHCI (generic) USB controller on ohci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: (0x10de) 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=0xe1082000-0xe1082fff irq 5  at device 2.1 
on pci0
usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb1: OHCI (generic) USB controller on ohci0
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: (0x10de) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
pci0: USB controller at 2.2 irq 10
pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x0066) at 4.0 irq 5
pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x006b) at 5.0 irq 9
pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x006a) at 6.0 irq 11
pcib1: PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x006c) at 8.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
pci1: unknown card (vendor=0x11ab, dev=0x4320) at 4.0 irq 5
pci1: unknown card (vendor=0x104b, dev=0x8130) at 6.0 irq 11
pci1: unknown card (vendor=0x1095, dev=0x3112) at 11.0 irq 11
atapci0: nVIDIA nForce2 ATA 133 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 9.0 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pcib2: PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1-de device=01e8) at device 30.0 on pci0
pci3: ATI model 4966 graphics accelerator at 0.0 irq 4
pci3: ATI model 496e graphics accelerator at 0.1
orm0: Option ROMs at iomem 0xc0-0xcafff, 0xcc000-0xcd7ff, 0xce000-0xcdfff, 
0xcf000-0xd1fff, 0xd2000-0xd67ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5, 0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1440KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: Keyboard controller(18042) at port 0x60, 0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df