Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-25 Thread perryh
Bahman Kahinpour bahman.li...@gmail.com wrote: Is AHCI mode the best mode for SATA controller? (highest speed, utilizing all fancy features, ...) In general, probably yes, provided the combination of hardware and driver actually works properly _all_ the time :) AHCI is new enough that the

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd and recognized as SCSI devices. I expected this

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Da Rock
On 01/25/11 00:01, Bahman Kahinpour wrote: Do you mean that both traditional IDE drives and these new SATA drives both begin with ad in FreeBSD? I am new to FreeBSD, I have just migrated from Linux. In Linux, traditional IDE drives used to begin with hd and these new SATA drives began with sd

RE: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Bahman Kahinpour [mailto:bahman.li...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 January 2011 11:40 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1) Hello FreeBSD people all over the world, There is an onboard

Re: Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 FreeBSD 8.1)

2011-01-24 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Oh man, I really liked your answer, thanks so much. I disabled all legacy options in the BIOS (SATA controller is in AHCI mode which I do not know what it is) and added this little ahci_load=YES thing to /boot/loader.conf and now my hard drives are recognized as: (and changed fstab and of course