freebsd 9.0 amd64 memstick installation does not detect SATA 3.0 drives

[Alexander Konovalenko]

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> Från: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] för Alexander Konovalenko [kono at kth.se]
> Skickat: den 18 mars 2012 12:14
> Till: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> Ämne: freebsd 9.0 amd64 memstick installation does not detect SATA 3.0 drives
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to install FreBSD 9.0 amd64 from a memory stick and it did not detect any of my SATA3.0 hard drives except actual 8Gb stick. The same mem stick detects fine SATA2 hdds on older machine.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> ******* My hardware:
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> hard drives:
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> Western Digital Caviar® Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s, (SATA 3.0), RPM = IntelliPower, 64MB, 3.5"
> Western Digital Caviar® Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0), 16MB, 7200RPM, 3.5"
> 
> the rest:
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> Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3, Socket-AM3+ ATX, 970+SB950, DDR3, 2xPCIe(2.0)x16, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, FW
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> AMD FX-6200 6-Core Processor Socket- AM3+, 3.8Ghz, 125W, 6MB L2 + 8MB L3 Cache, 32nm
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> 8Gb RAM in total: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 4GB CL9
> Video: Gainward GeForce GT 430 1GB PhysX CUDA PCI-Express 2.0, GDDR3, DVI, native-HDMI, 535MHz, 64bit
> 
> 
> regards,
>  Alexander
> 
> 


answering on my own email:

 my solution of this problem was to use CD installation of FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 and it worked. Then world/kernel build and upgrade to current 9 and machine is running fine. Hope may help to somebody.


regards
 Alexander