SATA controller not recognized in FBSD 7.1

Elliot Finley efinleywork at efinley.com
Thu Apr 9 14:59:13 UTC 2009


Andrew wrote:
> Hi Eliiot,
> 
> 
> Elliot Finley wrote:
>> I've got two of these:
>>
>> SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>>
>> each with 8 1T Hitachi drives hanging off them.  When booting, I see 
>> all the drives scanned and recognized by the controller, but I don't 
>> see them in dmesg or /dev.
>>
>> I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-R amd64.  Is there a special driver I need to 
>> load to get FreeBSD to recognize these?
>>
> 
> nope, though according to 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120842
> you need to disable the hptrr driver in the GENERIC kernel.

That worked, thank you.

Elliot


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