FreeBSD Support ? and Jmicron (jmb363) PATA/SATA controller -FIXED in fbsd 7 beta2

Rick Nekus solarux at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 24 06:08:38 PST 2007


Thanks all.


Subject: RE: FreeBSD Support ? and Jmicron (jmb363) PATA/SATA controllerDate: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:31:27 +0800To: solarux at hotmail.comCC: From: ethanhsiao at jmicron.com








Hi Rick,
 
SATA CD/DVD can be detected under FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2.
I’ve just tested it today.
If you still need SATA CD/DVD support, please update to FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2. :-)
 

Best Regards,Ethan Hsiao
 





From: Rick Nekus [mailto:solarux at hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:31 AMTo: Ethan - Huai Sheng HsiaoCc: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org; freebsd-drivers at freebsd.orgSubject: RE: FreeBSD Support ? and Jmicron (jmb363) PATA/SATA controller
 

c/o: Ethan(Jmicron), and freebsd-multimedia;freebsd-drivers :
-Thanks Ethan again, for your reply,
 I'm forwarding this to the FreeBSD folks as a polite heads up for their developers' in hopes we may eventually resolve this.
-I'm sorry, I don't have a detailed "dmesg",... in regards. I'm trying some other tests right now, but I'll try n' get some output, short of sending the Box down there. -But heck, I'll do that too if need be. :)
cheers.




From: ethanhsiao at jmicron.comTo: solarux at hotmail.comCC: sales at jmicron.com, fae at jmicron.comSubject: RE: FreeBSD Support ?Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:03 +0800
Dear Sir,
 
           Thanks for your suggestion.
 
           The AHCI driver of FreeBSD 6.2-S still seems to have some problems to detect SATA VD/CD?drive.
           The ICH* (AHCI mode) has the same problem too.
 
           Many Linux Distributions already support JMB36x like Fedora Core 7, OpenSuSE 10.2, Ubuntu 6.10, and Mandriva 2007.1 etc?/SPAN>
 

Best Regards,Ethan Hsiao
 





From: Rick Nekus [mailto:solarux at hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:00 PMTo: fae; salesCc: solarux at hotmail.comSubject: FreeBSD Support ?
 


Hello,

You mentioned on your site that Jmicron works with FreeBSD 5.5 and above?

I am using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (with latest updates...)

 

Hardware:

Asus P5B-Premium Vista Edition.

-JMB363 sata/pata chipset

Pioneer "Sata" DVD (Model DVR-212D) Drive (using AHCI mode) connected

to the JMB363 satra controller port.

 

I have the SATA (hard)drives connected on the Intel ICH8R ports

(they are non-raided in AHCI mode, and I can install freebsd via ftp

but not by DVD/CD drive if its connected to the JMB363 Sata port.

In either case, with even the lateset FreeBSD kernel , patches,....

its doesn't even see a /dev/dvd. unfrotunately, this is unacceptable. 

 

-This same above problems happens with "many" Linux Distributions, (DVD/CD boots but then the system cannot install becuase the installer,... cannot "see" the DVD drive anymore?)

however, one distro that worked fine recognizing the DVD drive connected on jmb363 port is

"Sabayon Linux 3.4f "

 

 In any case, as you may well know, there are a lot of other people having the same problems

(just google "jmicron freebsd").

Can some of your development/driver team work closely with the FreeBSD Driver Development team to fix this universal Linux/FreeBSD issue ?

 

 Thanks,

 

respectfully.

Rick.

 




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