From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 05:43:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BB616A4CF for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.calyx.net (mail2.calyx.net [216.82.161.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7708343D32 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from btx@mojo.calyx.net) Received: (qmail 4617 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2003 13:43:12 -0000 Received: from mojo.calyx.com (HELO mojo.calyx.net) (216.82.160.22) by mail2.calyx.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Dec 2003 13:43:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 12908 invoked by uid 1011); 12 Dec 2003 13:41:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:41:45 -0500 From: Brian Costello To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031212134145.GA19866@mojo.calyx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: FreeBSD 4.x-RELEASE on the intel 875 or 865-series chipsets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:43:14 -0000 Hi, I posted a question about FreeBSD on Shuttle hardware yesterday, but figured my subject line might've been too vague for people to recognize. Anyway, I am wondering if FreeBSD 4.x will work with drives hooked into either of those chipsets' onboard SATA. Specifically, the harddrives are western digital 10,000rpm serial ata drives, and I wonder if FreeBSD can handle booting off of them. I imagine that FreeBSD doesn't support serial ata natively, but I'd think there would be some sort of compatibility mode. Has anyone had success with this using the intel 875 and 865 series chipsets? Are there any other issues with that chipset and FreeBSD 4.x that I should be aware of? Note: I'm only interested in booting the system - if that means the drives have to run in polling mode, or ATA-33 or without ultra-DMA, so be it - I just want to know if that config CAN work. I read on the linux mailing lists that this exact config DOES work on linux 2.4 kernels, in some sort of compatibility mode. Will this be usable on FreeBSD as well? Thank you, bc