SATA controller not recognized in FBSD 7.1

Andrew awd at awdcomp.net
Thu Apr 9 15:10:08 UTC 2009


Elliot Finley wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>> Hi Eliiot,
>>
>>
>> Elliot Finley wrote:
>>> I've got two of these:
>>>
>>> SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>>>
>>> each with 8 1T Hitachi drives hanging off them.  When booting, I see 
>>> all the drives scanned and recognized by the controller, but I don't 
>>> see them in dmesg or /dev.
>>>
>>> I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-R amd64.  Is there a special driver I need to 
>>> load to get FreeBSD to recognize these?
>>>
>>
>> nope, though according to 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120842
>> you need to disable the hptrr driver in the GENERIC kernel.
> 
> That worked, thank you.
> 

:) No worries, I had to do same with my VIA 6421 pci SATA controller.

> Elliot



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