Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive
Lynn A. Roth
lynnr.junk at interactivefs.com
Fri Nov 4 07:14:24 PST 2005
Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Lynn A. Roth writes:
> | I have two new Dell Poweredge 850 machines. They have an Intel ICH7
> | chipset. When I boot FreeBSD 6 RC1, the controller is identified, but
> | any drives connected to the SATA ports are not detected. The drive that
> | is included with the system is a Seagate 7200.7 drive. I also tried a
> | Maxtor.
>
> I can confirm the problem on the PE850. I have it working with my
> latest 4.X SATA patches (which I haven't published yet). I might
> be able to look into this.
>
> FWIW, I my code these SATA registers in 4.X before the become alive:
> ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 0 error 4050000 scontrol 0 0 1
> ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 113 error 4050000 scontrol 0 0 1
> ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 113 error 0 scontrol 0 0 1
> ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 0 error 4050000 scontrol 0 1 1
> ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 113 error 4050000 scontrol 0 1 1
> ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 113 error 0 scontrol 0 1 1
> On other Intel controllers they I don't have to acknowledge the
> errors off the bat.
>
> Doug A.
If there is anything I can do to help, let me know. If there is a place
you can point me to start working with it, that would be great too.
Thanks,
Lynn
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