On-board Promise controller is not detected

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear FreeBSD hackers,

I have posted this question to FreeBSD-questions earlier, but got no
reply. So I try here.

I'm having trouble getting my on-board Promise controller to work. I can
use atacontrol to build an array, but sysinstall won't detect the disk
pack.

Could this be a problem with the fact that I use 2x80GB (Western
Digital) disk? Are they perhaps too large for the controller to
understand?

LikeEver# uname -a
FreeBSD LikeEver.kjkoster.org 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #51: Fri Oct  3
23:13:50 CEST 2003    
kjkoster at LikeEver.kjkoster.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIKEEVER  i386
LikeEver# dmesg | egrep -i "ata|ad[0-9]"
Preloaded splash_image_data "/boot/splash.bmp" at 0xc03f2190.
atapci0: <Promise ATA100 controller> port
0xdc00-0xdc3f,0xe000-0xe003,0xe400-0xe407,0xe800-0xe803,0xec00-0xec07
mem 0xdffe0000-0xdfffffff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0
ata2: at 0xec00 on atapci0
ata3: at 0xe400 on atapci0
atapci1: <VIA 8233 ATA100 controller> port 0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 17.1
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
ad0: 14655MB <Maxtor 51536U3> [29777/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
ad2: 14655MB <Maxtor 51536U3> [29777/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA66
ar0: 76293MB <ATA RAID1 array> [9726/255/63] status: READY subdisks:
0 READY ad4: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master
UDMA100
1 READY ad6: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00ETA0> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master
UDMA100
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
LikeEver# atacontrol delete 0
LikeEver# atacontrol create stripe 512 ad4 ad6
ar0 created
LikeEver# atacontrol status 0
ar0: ATA RAID0 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY
LikeEver# _

Unfortunately, sysinstall won't see the disk pack at all. It just gives
me ad0 and ad2. Building the disk array from the (rather useless) BIOS
utility does not help.

This is where I get lost. Anything I have missed?

The mainboard is an MSI K7T266 Pro2.

Thank you in advance,

   Kees Jan

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