i386/84943: "Invalid Partition Table" Intel ICH6 SATA controller (Dell D610 Laptop).

[Dean Patterson]

>Number:         84943
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       "Invalid Partition Table" Intel ICH6 SATA controller (Dell D610 Laptop).
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 15 07:50:10 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dean Patterson
>Release:        6.0-BETA2
>Organization:
Caterpillar Inc.
>Environment:
It is during install.
>Description:
I had FreeBSD 5-Stable on my Dell D600 (PATA) and when I got a new D610 (SATA) I cannot boot it after install.  When I install the boot manager I get a "Invalid Slice" error and when I install a standard MBR I get a "Invalid Partition Table" error.  Incidentally, I tried 5.4-Release and a 6-Current snapshot and I achieved the same error messages.  The D610 uses the Intel ICH6 SATA controller to which I believe the problem lies.  The DMESG on vt4 during install shows it as a ICH5 and UDMA100.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install any version of FreeBSD on a Dell D610 laptop.
>Fix:
      
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