amd64/172854: 9.0R doesn't recognize HDD on intel C602 chipset

[Jim Harris]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jim Harris <jimharris at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:44 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:10:01 pm Jim Harris wrote:
>>>  Intel C60x chipsets have 2 disk controllers - the SATA controller
>>>  (which most people are familiar with), and an integrated SAS
>>>  controller.  The isci(4) driver for the SAS controller was added to
>>>  FreeBSD in January - too late for 9.0, but did make it into 8.3 and
>>>  will be in 9.1.  My guess is the HDD in question is attached to the
>>>  SAS controller, and not the SATA controller.  I know that SuperMicro
>>>  systems ship with the front disk slots connected to the SAS
>>>  controller.
>>>
>>>  On 8.3, can you run "camcontrol devlist -v" and check whether the disk
>>>  in question is on an isciX or ahcichX bus?
>>
>> I think 9.0 didn't have the PCI ID for the onboard SATA in RAID mode either?
>>
>
> John's correct.
>
> I assume this missing PCI ID isn't the issue since you said your
> problem on 9.0 occurred in both AHCI and RAID mode.  But if you do
> move the HDD to the SATA controller and use 9.0, you will need to put
> the SATA controller in AHCI mode.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jim

Sorry - I obviously meant this to go to gnats and the original submitter.

-Jim