From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 18:11:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2E7106567C for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36F88FC1E for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id V2j31a00Q1HpZEsA86BM9W; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:21 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id V6BL1a0042P6wsM8a6BLHb; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:20 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=WPOqk_0cROxuKjgV8-EA:9 a=7ig-X_tTwdri7WG81j63uuEhX30A:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 02AA0C9432; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:11:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20081020181119.GA9777@icarus.home.lan> References: <539c60b90810201018v455513a0tdc97d7465e6623c3@mail.gmail.com> <20081020172515.GA8705@icarus.home.lan> <539c60b90810201109t4504d87dy727220c6663a4281@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90810201109t4504d87dy727220c6663a4281@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata hotswap on Intel ICH7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:11:21 -0000 On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:09:19AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > It also requires that you be using SATA in "Enhanced" mode, or under > > AHCI. Using SATA in "Emulation" or "Compatible" mode (e.g. a 2-channel > > SATA controller will assign disks as ata0-master and ata0-slave) will > > not work how you expect. AHCI is preferred, if available. > > Ok, I followed the rest, but is the part above a function of the bios, > the hardware, a sysctl, or what? Sounds like bios, I'll have a > look... Yep, this would be in the BIOS. Sorry I didn't specify, my bad. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |