VIA 8237 SATA problems

[Matthias Andree]

Greg Gladwell <greg at theredpill.org> writes:

> I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on a machine with a VIA 8237 SATA controller.
> Although the controller is detected on boot the same is not true for the drive
> (a 200GB Seagate Barracuda). According to the man page the controller is fully
> supported and having STFW I can't find anything useful to aid my cause. Having
> looked through LINT I can't see that there's anything that would be useful to
> pass at boot time, so does anyone have any suggestions?

Is trying 5.3-BETA1 an option for you? It works for me, albeit not with
drives attached to my VIA 8237 (still all parallel ATA and SCSI).

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Matthias Andree

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