www/86516: Asus motherboard k8s-mx not compatible with FreeBSD

[Charles-André Landemaine]

>Number:         86516
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       Asus motherboard k8s-mx not compatible with FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 23 22:20:02 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Charles-André Landemaine
>Release:        5.4
>Organization:
Auriance
>Environment:
>Description:
      The Asus motherboard K8S-MX is not compatible with FreeBSD because it uses a proprietary driver for its Sata controller (SiS) that is available only for Windows. FreeBSD won't detect SATA drives even after a Bios update.
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