From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 13 06:29:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D84516A41F for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:29:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kimmoa@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF0E643D45 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:29:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kimmoa@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so360467ugf for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:29:55 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:to:subject:from:content-type:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:user-agent; b=jec96uT4qkzZx1poG2it+kutU6/83CBH+/s+lCar9hj5UMRjPwuzgUV4+0gWAbD5wWl+CFVjxxNCz//9qfEbmPjKKexnkUd4/vcNY7FdUk/A96G0Dtwze7vJ7OdwcSY/+sDmU3/NnKgYyCfPya7Znq9NLdxC1cXNrm6KrqedYuQ= Received: by 10.67.105.19 with SMTP id h19mr5798493ugm; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimmoa.bredbandsbolaget.se ( [85.226.108.198]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id o1sm4959030uge.2006.06.12.17.58.39; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:58:39 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: "Kimmo Alm" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.54 (Win32, build 7730) Subject: Annoying FreeBSD > 4.11 ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA mobo incompability X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:29:57 -0000 Hey, My ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA won't work in FreeBSD versions over 4.x. I have tested 5.x, 6.x and even a current 7.x one. CD: "bootonly". Problem: Loads kernel, and then basically freezes, overwriting characters on the screen (at the boot menu with the options). Among the zillions of things I've tested to solve this problem include: Testing another videocard (PCI -- not on-board), testing without the S-ATA enabled, updated BIOS to the latest version (hardware made in 2004 and last BIOS update in late 2005), changing a ton of settings in the BIOS, installing the OS on another box and moving the HDD... Nothing works. The hardware cannot possibly not faulty as it can run Debian Linux or FreeBSD 4.11 perfectly well. That's right. No probbies there. But I don't want to run Linux and I don't want to run legacy FreeBSD... I don't know what else to say... I have really, really did my best and tested every potentional solution. No luck. I am now asking you to please look into this and perhaps come up with some kind of solution/patch. This is a standard hardware server motherboard, which apparently has won a lot of awards for being so great and flexible on top of that! It really makes little sense to me that this would not be supported by FreeBSD! Also check out the Usenet thread with extra info: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/c9f5097c099d1e71/ea90c898595972e6?hl=en& Thank you for reading this.