Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:53:18 -0600 From: "David Witten" <wittend@wwrinc.com> To: <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: SiL3112A Serial ATA & Dell Poweredge 2300 Message-ID: <004401c3c323$8fcc2be0$1e01a8c0@bullfrog>
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I am attempting to get a Serial ATA card to work in an older Dell Poweredge 2300 server (2 x PII 400 CPU's, Adaptec 7890, Adaptec 7860 SCSI's, 2x4G SCSI drives (on 7890), 1 SCSI CD (on 7860). While the card has RAID capabilities, I am only attempting to use a single drive without RAID. The box works well enough with 4.8 & 4.9, though I have not tried to build a multiprocessor kernel. I am completely unable to install 5.1 from floppy or CD boot - the kernel load always fails while probing the PCI bus or bus bridge - at least that is always the last message on the screen when the system hangs. Whether the SIL controller is plugged into the bus or not. Under 4.x versions the bios reports the existence of both the SIL controller & Hitachi 160 GB drive. But the fdisk process completely fails to see it (no driver, I assume) whether or not I disable the SCSI controllers, etc. If the 7890 is enabled I can install normally on either/both of the SCSI drives. 1) Is the SIL 3112A supported by any version (my searches have yielded nothing) 2) Do 4.8 or 4.9 support ANY SATA controller/drives (my searches have yielded nothing unambiguous) 3) Why does 5.1 so dislike this server? Thanks, Dave W.
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