From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 18:30:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F2C16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:30:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF9243D2D for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:30:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j39IUU4l001954; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:30:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <42581EE5.3050502@DeepCore.dk> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:28:53 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucas Holt References: <0e82862eed1dddaca9b75c3e2680f646@foolishgames.com> In-Reply-To: <0e82862eed1dddaca9b75c3e2680f646@foolishgames.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.12 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia nforce2 sata controller X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:30:42 -0000 Lucas Holt wrote: > I have a MSI k7n2 delta2 lsr motherboard (msicomputer.com). Odd as it = > sounds, it has a nvidia sata controller. From a post on current in=20 > december, I learned it uses the pata controller and another chip in=20 > front of it. The sata controller is not detected by 5-STABLE and i'd=20 > like to see it included. I noticed the how to write a problem report=20 > documentation recommended bouncing things off a mailing list first. =20 > Here i am. >=20 > I've played around with the sources of the ata driver and managed to ge= t=20 > the card to report properly with hints from that thread in december on = > current. I also figured out that having the controller initialize with= =20 > the sata init routine instead of the via init seemed to make it work an= d=20 > negotiate SA150. >=20 > i'm still having a few stability problems with the system. I don't kno= w=20 > if its the driver or my NIC. It tends to only happen when i'm using=20 > the network (cvsup, etc) so i'm not sure. You should try out -current as it has support for the nVidia chips=20 already... --=20 -S=F8ren