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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:50:10 +0200
From:      "Jaco le Roux" <j4b4ls4d@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SiS 180 and SATA Hard drives
Message-ID:  <426051440803070150k60454ba3safab22bb24dc56a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEHICFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <20080307090418.GA46679@mail.irbisnet.ru> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEHICFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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Ah if I had been around that time, I would have tested it with
pleasure. Unfortunately I only started using FreeBSD little more than
a month ago. I will try and do as you said, Thanks for the help.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>  > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Yuri Pankov
>  > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:04 AM
>  > To: Jaco le Roux
>  > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>  > Subject: Re: SiS 180 and SATA Hard drives
>  >
>  >
>  > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:50:23AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote:
>  > > Hi, I already sent a message to hardware@, I'm hoping I might find a
>  > > response here
>  > >
>  > > I have an Asus P4S-800D motherboard with SATA hard drives running from
>  > > a SiS 180/181 RAID Controller (VEN_1039 & DEV_0180, according to
>  > > Windows XP). They are not set to RAID mode however, it is merely a
>  > > RAID controllor taking charge of the SATA hard drives. My problem is
>  > > the following: when I enter 'sysinstall' and do a Standard Install,
>  > > freebsd does not detect any hard disks. According to the 'ata(4)' man
>  > > page, the SiS 180 controller is supported and I see the controller
>  > > detected/being loaded at boot time. I have links to other people
>  > > experiencing similar problems too:
>  > >
>  > >  http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-bugs/200510/msg00208.html
>  > >  http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-bugs/200707/msg00265.html
>  > >
>  > >  And a few others of which I lost the urls. I have also tried this on
>  > > both RELEASE of 6.3 and 7.0. Does anyone have any ideas?
>  > >
>  > >  Thanks, much appreciated
>  >
>  > Just a "me too".
>  >
>  > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/03
>  8203.html
>
>  To both of you:
>
>  Soren posted a patch here:
>
>  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=87585&cat=
>
>  and neither of you apparently tested, thus Soren put the
>  fix in and closed the PR
>
>  One of you needs to file a new PR, and reference the old one
>  kern/87585, and then the other one of you needs to submit
>  followup - that way, both of you will have your e-mail
>  addresses tied to the new PR, and this time, when the maintainer
>  writes a patch, you need to test it.
>
>  Ted
>



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