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Date:      Tue, 1 Feb 2005 06:57:36 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)
Message-ID:  <200502010657.36994.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050119204300.W27409@pooker.samsco.org>
References:  <BAY13-F21CF98AA3A736A9B16E3ABE9810@phx.gbl> <20050119204300.W27409@pooker.samsco.org>

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On Wednesday 19 January 2005 10:44 pm, Scott Long wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, yoke an wrote:
> > My motherboard is using an ICH5 southbridge and your suggestion is works.
> > As you said, my sata disks appear to be normal IDE drives but it is not
> > running on Raid mode. Currently I'm having 2 HDD, if I do this option,
> > it cannot syn with another HDD. Any better suggestion?
>
> This is the best that you can get under FreeBSD 4.x.  If you need access
> to both IDE channels and SATA at the same time, you'll have to use FreeBSD
> 5.x.
>
> Scott

4.9 and later can handle ICH5 in Enhanced mode (personal experience + I 
backported the simple patches to do so).  It doesn't include RAID support 
though.

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