6.2-RELEASE on Intel DQ965GF

[Antony Mawer]

On 15/02/2007 6:42 PM, Rashid N. Achilov wrote:
> I have just installed 6.2-RELEASE on Intel DQ965GF m/b-based box (with 2 SATA 
> HDD). When I have connected an NEC DVD-ROM to PATA interface with FreeBSD 
> installation disk, I can boot from it, but I cannot use it. Generic kernel 
> detects a huge pile of ata interfaces (imagine, I have ad12 and ad14 instead 
> of usually ad0 and ad1 :ROFL:) but cannot detect ATAPI devices on PATA, so 
> cannot use dvd to install, so I must install systen from ny own FTP server. 
> 
> Of course, that's will be a server. Server does not need DVD-ROM. It's only 
> academical interest - why ATAPI did not detect? I have flashed new BIOS - no 
> success. Some kernel customization can helps me?

The PATA connector on these boards are a Marvell chip, and 6.2 does not 
support this. I know that Soren (sos@) was aware of this and had 
hardware, and I recently saw a commit that I think adds support to this 
to -CURRENT (it hasn't been MFC'd to 6.x yet). See this commit:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c?rev=1.179&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

I will be attempting an MFC of this in coming days, as we are looking at 
using these boards on several systems soon. If I remember to, I will 
post the results of my MFC'ing once done :-)

--Antony