i386/95515: unable to boot FreeBSD 6.x with SATA150 Promise controller

[cedrick]

>Number:         95515
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       unable to boot FreeBSD 6.x with SATA150 Promise controller
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 08 11:20:00 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     cedrick
>Release:        5.4-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mobidyc.net 5.4-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p13 #0: Fri Apr  7 20:29:24 CEST 2006     root at mobidyc.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOBIDYC  i386

>Description:
when i try to boot the computer with 6.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso or 6.1-BETA4-i386-bootonly.iso there is a reboot.
the reboot appears just after loading a line speaking:
Booting....
looking up boot/loader...

if remove all SATA disks, the problem does not appear, but in this case, i have no disk for install FreeBSD ;(

i tried with these:
acd0: CDRW <DVDRW DRW-1S81/HSG5> at ata1-master PIO4
acd1: CDRW <HL-DT-ST GCE-8526B/1.02> at ata1-slave PIO4

in FreeBSD 5.4, the controller appears with:
atapci0: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150 controller> port 0xa000-0xa0ff,0x9c00-0x9c7f mem 0xe3000000-0xe301ffff,0xe3021000-0xe3021fff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci1

some months ago i have tried to makeworld with FreeBSD 6.x, all the compile was fine but however i was unable to boot the system because it falled in kernel panic.

i know that this controler is not supported but it is not supported on 5.4 too, however, on FreeBSD 5.4, all is fine.

i'm available for all tests you want.
thanks for help.


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