kern/81634: ICH5R SATA driver non-functional, install from CD fails w/ no HDDs found

[Erik Power]

The following reply was made to PR kern/81634; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Erik Power" <big.laser at gmail.com>
To: <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/81634: ICH5R SATA driver non-functional, install from CD fails w/ no HDDs found
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 18:11:20 -0400

 An additional follow-up, choosing the safe-mode boot option allowed me =
 to
 see the HDD and complete the install of 5.4-RELEASE amd64. To further =
 help
 your debugging, when attempting the normal boot sequence for =
 installation,
 the ATA_IDENTIFY and ATAPI_IDENTIFY commands were timing out on the hard
 drive and CD drive, respectively. The hard drive is SATA, the CD drive =
 is on
 an old parallel ATA interface, and both drives are masters on their
 respective channels. As long as I choose a safe-mode boot, I have no
 problems getting the system to run (although the drive performace is
 seriously degraded). I'll try messing around with atacontrol to see if I =
 can
 fix the problem with a forced ata config.
 
 Erik Power
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