SATA controller not recognized in FBSD 7.1

Andrew awd at awdcomp.net
Sat Mar 28 03:29:12 PDT 2009


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.

HTH
cya
Andrew

> TIA
> Elliot
> 
> P.S. I bought these thinking they would work because of this 
> http://www.nabble.com/ZFS-Advice-td18842170.html thread and others that 
> seemed to indicate people were using these with FreeBSD.
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