Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:34:02 -0500
From:      "Lynn A. Roth" <lynnr.junk@interactivefs.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive
Message-ID:  <dkq9ga$75j$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200511071835.jA7IZHuV081505@ambrisko.com>
References:  <200511071835.jA7IZHuV081505@ambrisko.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Doug Ambrisko writes:
> | Doug Ambrisko writes:
> | | Lynn A. Roth writes:
> | | | I have two new Dell Poweredge 850 machines.  They have an Intel ICH7 
> | | | chipset.  When I boot FreeBSD 6 RC1, the controller is identified, but 
> | | | any drives connected to the SATA ports are not detected.  The drive that 
> | | | is included with the system is a Seagate 7200.7 drive.  I also tried a 
> | | | Maxtor.
> | | 
> | | I can confirm the problem on the PE850.  I have it working with my
> | | latest 4.X SATA patches (which I haven't published yet).  I might
> | | be able to look into this.
> | | 
> 
> Here's a hack to make it work on PE850:
> 
<snip>
> 
> This works for me on my PE850.  It shouldn't break other stuff etc.
> I assume the ICH6 will need the same type of change.
> 
> Doug A.

Thanks for this patch.
Scott from pfSense integrated this into his kernel and it worked great 
for me.

Thanks again.

Lynn Roth
Interactive Financial Solutions, Inc.




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dkq9ga$75j$1>