FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

Shaun Sabo shaun.bsd at gmail.com
Fri May 2 02:46:56 UTC 2008


i tried both the 7-stable and 7.0-RELEASE livefs disks and when i went into
fixit then to CD/DVD livefs it would ask me for the livefs cd (which i had
in the drive and which i booted from) it looks like i cant even mount the
image of the livefs disk from the cd-rom drive. also iv noticed that when i
reboot after booting into the sysinstaller the bios gets about 2/3 of the
way booted and stops and i have to hold the power and reboot to get back
into opensuse/vista.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Shaun Sabo <shaun.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> since it is not 7-stable im interested in shouldnt i use the 7.0-RELEASE
> livefs?
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:04:28PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote:
> > > I checked to make sure that the hard disks are not in raid
> > configuration and
> > > there are not. i also checked and my bios are at the latest version
> > > available (A11). also this is an XPS 600 not 700 and i have the
> > correct
> > > users manual in paper and digital formats. how would you like the
> > dmesg to
> > > be presented? i dont think i have any way to writing it to a thumb
> > drive or
> > > such devices from the installer. should i just take digital pictures?
> >
> > Digital pictures would be fine, unless you want to try the serial
> > console route (chances are you don't have this sort of environment set
> > up, so it's probably more effective to take photos).
> >
> > One thing: does Linux detect your disks on this system?
> >
> > I'd recommend downloading one of the recent RELENG_7 snapshot CDs,
> > specifically the "livefs" one, and boot it.  dmesg doesn't come with the
> > standard installation disc (disc1), hence why I'm recommending livefs.
> > The snapshots are available here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804
> >
> > You probably want one of these two:
> >
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-amd64-livefs.iso
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200804/7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-livefs.iso
> >
> > dmesg should show some ATA stuff at the end, assuming you're familiar
> > with FreeBSD's kernel output.  Something like this, assuming the
> > physical disks are detected:
> >
> > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150
> > ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 12.01C02> at ata3-master SATA300
> > ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata4-master SATA300
> > ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata5-master SATA300
> >
> > You'll need to work backwards to figure out what is connected to what,
> > e.g.:
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep ata2
> > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> > ata2: [ITHREAD]
> > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep atapci1
> > atapci1: <Intel AHCI controller> port
> > 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc-0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem
> > 0xe8600400-0xe86007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
> > atapci1: [ITHREAD]
> > atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected
> > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1
> > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1
> >
> > Otherwise, if none of this works, you'll need to somehow provide the
> > full output of "pciconf -lv", which will be many screen fulls of data.
> > You'll probably have to pipe it through "more", take a shot, hit
> > spacebar, take another shot, etc...
> >
> > Please post URLs to the photos, rather than attaching them.  The mailing
> > list software does not take kindly to large attachments.
> >
> > --
> > | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> > | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> > | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
> > | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
> >
> >
>


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