Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive

[Lynn A. Roth]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Doug Ambrisko writes:
> | Doug Ambrisko writes:
> | | Lynn A. Roth writes:
> | | | I have two new Dell Poweredge 850 machines.  They have an Intel ICH7 
> | | | chipset.  When I boot FreeBSD 6 RC1, the controller is identified, but 
> | | | any drives connected to the SATA ports are not detected.  The drive that 
> | | | is included with the system is a Seagate 7200.7 drive.  I also tried a 
> | | | Maxtor.
> | | 
> | | I can confirm the problem on the PE850.  I have it working with my
> | | latest 4.X SATA patches (which I haven't published yet).  I might
> | | be able to look into this.
> | | 
> 
> Here's a hack to make it work on PE850:
> 
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> 
> This works for me on my PE850.  It shouldn't break other stuff etc.
> I assume the ICH6 will need the same type of change.
> 
> Doug A.

Thanks for this patch.
Scott from pfSense integrated this into his kernel and it worked great 
for me.

Thanks again.

Lynn Roth
Interactive Financial Solutions, Inc.