ahci ata/sata controllers and bios (was: Re: Fwd (by request from fbsd-questions): Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!)

[Steve Franks]

Sorry about that last subject line, gents.  Shouldn't have blindly
forwarded it.  Rest of message identical.

Steve

On 2/4/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Søren Schmidt <sos at deepcore.dk> wrote:
> > Steve Franks wrote:
> > > Soren,
> > >
> > > I was instructed to forward this information to you by Ted
> > > Mittelstaedt on the freebsd-questions list.  I see the M5287 listed in
> > > "man ata" but it doesn't work on my system.  I found several other
> > > emails with identical info from novemeber on the freebsd-stable list,
> > > also unresolved.  Those were for 6.2-RC2.  Was working fine under
> > > 6.1-release. dmesg output is below in the forward.
> > Somewhere along the lines AHCI support for the 5287 was added, that is
> > probably the problem. It might be nessesary to enable AHCI in the BIOS
> > if possible.
> > Otherwise a way to tell when this is actually working on the HW is
> > needed as its clearly not enough that the BIOS says the resources are
> > there....
> >
> > -Søren
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org>
> > > Date: Feb 2, 2007 11:43 AM
> > > Subject: Help! Sata controller reset failure after 6.2 upgrade!
> > > To: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > Everything looks spiffy after my upgrade except all my sata disks are
> > > gone.  Thank goodness the os in on a pata controller:
> > >
> > > atapci1: <AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller> port
> > > 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f
> > > mem 0xdffff800-0xdffffbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on pci0
> > > atapci1: AHCI controller reset failure
> > > device_attach: atapci1 attach returned 6
> > >
> > > So, I booted the 6.2 iso to find identical behavior, so it is not my
> > > mistake in the upgrade process (unless the mistake was to upgrade at
> > > all).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> Soren,
>
> I don't see any AHCI settings anywhere in my bios or in my sata raid
> controller page.  It is the latest bios.  Is there a way to force the
> driver to a standard ata device instead of ahci?
>
> Steve
>


Sorry about that last subject line, gents.  Shouldn't have blindly
forwarded it.  Rest of message identical.

Steve