From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 19:04:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8361065678 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 19:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B24D8FC0A for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 19:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shaun.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so544233nfh.33 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:04:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=RB4ib+2H1q4BRy1uaSUVm01yz1Fv0GSU3WM55aKYHa4=; b=b1PVHsjONLw2qsE9gSrSkOy0PtB3h1lGoBee+EAIeOv7JKOsNZoxhQe1w+Ov+w2RqvUEle1PklOiGGaI9G6UGQXDGut2dzJewJsydvcNiOoWlSHNRXwKWupaDClfPUYBLaMrzbX3N53OWzqOkcbCzn6cmpnKODK9LzR5nDNCDfI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=L/OeuCBnhlxenwTZDIwc+rFYBD0wUBHNIAcIFWoIWo0vF6Ga0tFlo5FTuEI3CPOUkgk1aO78qYxzsVFFzWhTsdDogVB3RuKuFdlASwXiu3vfc6/N/Gcuu1rkr8ODcFDTM2LX7JvUvwtcix0SWBXCZfHouLFSGs4+PKorpSWL0Xg= Received: by 10.78.205.16 with SMTP id c16mr702083hug.109.1209668668973; Thu, 01 May 2008 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.180.19 with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:04:28 -0400 From: "Shaun Sabo" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080501182325.GA62281@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:04:31 -0000 I checked to make sure that the hard disks are not in raid configuration and there are not. i also checked and my bios are at the latest version available (A11). also this is an XPS 600 not 700 and i have the correct users manual in paper and digital formats. how would you like the dmesg to be presented? i dont think i have any way to writing it to a thumb drive or such devices from the installer. should i just take digital pictures? On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:34:53PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > > Im trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 on a Dell XPS 600 desktop machine and > im > > having a lot of trouble with this. First I could not use USB keyboards > with > > the installer program (which is fine, i dont mind switching to PS2). > then > > once i got into the sysinstaller it does not detect my Hard Disks. i > also > > tried installing an old 6.2 cd that i had sitting around and remaking > world > > and kernel but when i installed the kernel and restarted to go into > single > > user mode the system could not mount the root filesystem. the > motherboard im > > using is a nvidia nforce4 with Serial ATA hard disks. Does anyone know > how > > to get FreeBSD 7.0 to recognize my hard drives? > > Re: USB keyboard: USB support on FreeBSD is spotty. That said, I've > never run into problems getting FreeBSD to detect and use a USB keyboard > (other USB devices are a different story). You'd need to provide some > dmesg(8) output to verify, but I know that's going to be difficult until > you can get FreeBSD installed. > > Re: SATA disks: I can assure you that FreeBSD works fine with SATA disks > connected to an nForce 4 chipset, because I've used them myself with no > issue. Chances are there's a BIOS setting that's causing mayhem, or > you may be using a RAID array of some sort (since the XPS700 is one of > those "gamer lozlozlz" systems). > > The manual for this system is here: > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps700/ > > Screenshots of the BIOS are here: > > http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/09/04/Dell_XPS_700_review/5 > > Are you using RAID at all on this system? If so, chances are that's why > it doesn't see your array. > > Finally, if available, I'd try a BIOS update. Googling for results > shows that system has quite a large number of issues with its BIOSes, > and Dell has been fairly good about providing updates to fix problems. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > >