From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 26 18:39:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 7D1B616A420 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:39:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from smartmx-01.inode.at (smartmx-01.inode.at [213.229.60.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F2D43D6A for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:39:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.80] (port=63893 helo=[192.168.1.6]) by smartmx-01.inode.at with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1E8j6V-0003sb-21; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:39:03 +0200 Message-ID: <430F61C5.4000808@inode.at> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:39:01 +0200 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "albi@scii.nl" , questions@freebsd.org References: <430F5C97.7030704@inode.at> <20050826203204.28e60803.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050826203204.28e60803.albi@scii.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: sata trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:39:06 -0000 albi@scii.nl wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:16:55 +0200 > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > > >> I wonder whether anyone here can help me with a little problem: >>I just bought a notebook with a VIA VT 6421 sata controller and a >>Samsung HM080JI sata harddisk. >>The controller is recognized with 6.0 B3 but it can't identify the >>harddisk - i get the following error: >> >>unknown: timeout waiting to issue command >>unknown: error issueing ATA_IDENTIFY command >>unknown: timeout waiting to issue command >>unknown: error issueing ATA_IDENTIFY command > > > not really an answer to your question, but.. i'm using 6.0-BETA3 here > with basically the same controller and a SATA maxtor disc (and 1 > IDE-disc + 2 dvd-drives) without problems : > > pciconf -lv|grep SATA > device = 'VT8237 VT6410 SATA RAID Controller' that's a diffrent one... > $ dmesg |grep ad6 > ad6: 190782MB at ata3-master SATA150 again a diffrent piece of hardware :p > are there possible BIOS-options for the SATA on your machine ? nope, nothing in bios about it (but the preinstalled windows works) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at