Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive

[Lynn A. Roth]

Lynn A. Roth wrote:
> 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:
>>
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> 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.

Can this be committed sometime to current?

Lynn