Intel 6300ESB SATA150 cannot find disk or boot under 6.3

[Michael Scheidell]

> A few questions:
>
> 1) What does "accidentally works" mean?
>   

one of our techs found a patch for 6.3 that worked.


> 2) Do I understand you correctly: 6300ESB works on FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.2,
> "accidentally works" on 6.3, but does not work on 7.0?
>
>   
I have a compiled kernel that works, but we lost the patch.  normal 6.3 
doesn't.
generic 6.3 doesn't.  i 6.3 current didn't work.

I can send you a dell 750 with 6.3 on it that does work (custom 6.3 
kernel, again, lost the source, can't repeduce 'fix' no matter what I tried)
even upgraded dell 750 to latest firmware.

other anomaly:  teying to man times to boot 6.3 hosed a hard disk.  
fried the hardware (hard disk) somehow.
> 3) Have you tried 7.1-PRERELEASE?  I make no promises, but additional
> confirmation would be helpful.
>
>   
not yet. since I didn't see any CLOSED pr talking about fixing it, and 
all the hardware notes on 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1 say just it does 
generic support for SATA150.


> ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200809/
>
> 4) Have you contacted the ata(4) author, Soren Schmidt <sos at freebsd.org>
> about this driver regression?
>
> 5) Is there a PR open on this matter, or have you filed one?
>
>   
after replying to freebsd-hardware post, I found this, but have found 
other posts going back to feb 2008.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127391


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