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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:00:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Boot problem on a P4P800-based computer
Message-ID:  <200306060700.h5670M3l001750@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200306051418.54942.wes@softweyr.com>

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It seems Wes Peters wrote:
>On Thursday 05 June 2003 09:27, Noor Dawod wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The problem was solved!
>> This motherboard supports Serial ATA ports, and this option was ON in
>> the BIOS.
>> Turning it OFF, and adjusting the auto-detect mode in the BIOS,
>> solved the problem.
>>
>> FreeBSD's probed the Serial ATA ports I guess and hanged there...
>> Maybe one of the developers might want to add a check for serial ATA
>> in the kernel in future releases...
>
>Glad you're up and running.
>
>Maybe Soren can shed some light on this.  Soren, he's running 4.8
>RELEASE and the boot probe seems to stick when he hits the onboard
>S-ATA ports.  Should this work in 4.8?

4.x lacks support for alot of the newer chips out there, including most
SATA parts (depends on model/vendor of cause).

However I need to know which chip this is to be certain, dmesg/pciconf -l
output would be handy..

-Søren



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