Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:43:04 +0200 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA regression with 7.2 Message-ID: <4B92B048.1030805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1267899785.00226614.1267888204@10.7.7.3> References: <1267899785.00226614.1267888204@10.7.7.3>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > I've got a box with a VIA VT8251 chipset and a single SATA HD, running > 6.3/i386. > I'm trying to upgrade it to 7.2, but, when booting with the new kernel, > it won't detect any HD. > In my BIOS I can set the controller to SATA, RAID or AHCI, but that > doesn't matter. > > Here's what I see when booting 6.3: > > atapci0: <VIA AHCI controller> port > 0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe803,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe403,0xe080-0xe08f > mem 0xfebfec00-0xfebfefff irq 21 at device 15.0 on pci0 > atapci0: AHCI Version 01.00 controller with 4 ports detected > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0 > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0 > atapci1: <VIA 8251 UDMA133 controller> port > 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.1 on pci0 > ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 > ... > ad4: 152627MB <WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0 05.06H05> at ata2-master SATA300 > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a > > On 7.2 the output is roughly the same (I couldn't save it), but it won't > find ad4 and prompt me for a boot device (with none available). To get more info you may try to boot with verbose kernel messages enabled. Also as soon as you are updating, I would suggest you to try new 7.3, or even better 8-STABLE. 8-STABLE includes significant changes in ATA subsystem, including completely new AHCI driver ahci(4). -- Alexander Motin
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