PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 1:38:05 pm Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> --- On Tue, 12/28/10, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting
> > To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> > Cc: "Darmawan Salihun" <darmawan_salihun at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 10:20 AM
> > On Monday, December 27, 2010 6:07:35
> > am Darmawan Salihun wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on AMD Geode LX800
> > (CS5536 "southbridge"). 
> > However, it cannot detect the IDE controller (in the
> > CS5536) correctly. It 
> > says something similar to this: 
> > > "IDE controller not present"
> > 
> > Hmm, I can't find a message like that anywhere.  Can
> > you get the exact message 
> > you are seeing?
> > 
> 
> It says: 
> 
> "No disks found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly
> probed at boot time."

Oh, so this is a message from the installer.  Can you capture a verbose dmesg
via a serial console perhaps?  Or at least the kernel probe messages for your
ATA controller?

-- 
John Baldwin