freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Scott Long wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, yoke an wrote:
> > My motherboard is using an ICH5 southbridge and your suggestion is works.
> > As you said, my sata disks appear to be normal IDE drives but it is not
> > running on Raid mode. Currently I'm having 2 HDD, if I do this option,
> > it cannot syn with another HDD. Any better suggestion?
>
> This is the best that you can get under FreeBSD 4.x.  If you need access
> to both IDE channels and SATA at the same time, you'll have to use FreeBSD
> 5.x.
>
> Scott

4.9 and later can handle ICH5 in Enhanced mode (personal experience + I 
backported the simple patches to do so).  It doesn't include RAID support 
though.

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