Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N

[Søren Schmidt]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:46:21PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote:
>   
>>   We have a Dell Powervault 745N and want to install FreeBSD 6.1-R.
>> But the installer complains that it can not find out any hard disk.
>> Since the dmesg contains ata2~5, I think the controller is recognized
>> by FreeBSD, but it cannot get the SATA drive.
>>
>> The dmesg and result of running pciconf -lv is in this PR:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/103624
>>     
>
> The controller (which you label in your PR as "some funny RAID
> controller") is an Intel 31244:
>
> atapci0: <Intel 31244 SATA150 controller> mem 0xfe1ff000-0xfe1fffff irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
> ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0
>
> Some history: this controller was discussed back in 2005:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-June/050827.html
>
> The appropriate code appears to have been committed to FreeBSD as
> of June 2005:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49
>
> There was a DMA-related fix for this controller committed in February 2006:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49.2.7
>
> Soren, do you have any ideas?
>   
Nothing else that that it should work. I dont own any HW that uses this 
chip so I cannot test it out. The current support was done for the ARM 
port IIRC so things might be different on other systems.
At any rate you definitly should try out 6.2-beta-something as 6.1 is 
getting old....

-Søren