6.1-STABLE , cant see SIS S655-FX SATA Drives

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:14 -0400, Kevin Kutzko wrote:
> Running freebsd 6.1 Stable.
> 
> I am aware that there was issues with SiS SATA chipsets requiring a 
> patch. Has this issue been resolved with not being able to see SATA 
> drives (at all) in freebsd?

The easiest way to find out would probably be to upgrade - 6.2-BETA2 is
available at the moment.  Obviously, it's beta code, but not really any
more so than what you are currently running.

> The bug is apparently with in how the SATA regs are addressed. I found a 
> few references to patches, but the references are over a year old. Has 
> anyone encountered this problem? How would it be fixed?
> 
> HW Summary :
> 
> Asus P4S800D-X m/b with SiS S655FX SATA Chipset
> 2x 300gb Maxtor SATA Hard drives
> 1x 40gb WD IDE HDD
> 
> 
> I'd show the DMESG output, but it doesnt show any detection of SATA 
> drives at all.

I suspect a verbose dmesg will reveal a lot of useful information....

Gavin