On 22 Jun 2008, at 16:55, Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
> Le Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:38:10 +0100,
> Martin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
>
>> - When the SATA drives are detected by combios, why doesn't the
>> FreeBSD 7.0p2 installer see them? Do I need to add something to the
>> GENERIC kernel?
>
> No, it should work out of the box. I've installed a 7.0 release and
> now
> i run 7-STABLE.
>
> Well, I don't have any problem on my net5501 with a WDC WD2500BEVS
> disk.
> ComBios 1.33
That's useful. I just found a WDC2500BEVS on the shelf. Tried it
with net5501 S/N 57N00725 with these results in combios 1.33:
10 warm boot cycles: pass: 3, fail (drive not detected): 7
10 cold boot cycles:
fail (4 LED silent hang) : 2
fail (drive not detected): 5
pass: 3
When drive is detected, using "boot f0" for the FreeBSD 7.0 installer
is not successful: the FreeBSD kernel can't see the drive.
So, I guess I need to repeat this test on my other recent net5501, and
then again on my two older net5501's (which are running ATA drives) to
try to confirm that it is a manufacturing fault with the last batch of
net5501's.
Do you know what firmware revision your WDC2500BEVS has? When my
drive is detected, the combios reports 'WDC WDC2500BEVS-00UST0'. It
would be interesting to see if we have the same drive firmware.
I also have a 2500BEVE drive that I could try, similar but slightly
newer.
Thanks!
- Martin
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