Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 16 May 2004 16:11:18 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dmesg for ATA devices (SATA)
Message-ID:  <40A77686.6010807@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <40A655A2.5010706@forrie.com>
References:  <40A655A2.5010706@forrie.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> I adjusted my BIOS (SOYO Dragon Platinum) to enable only the Primary IDE 
> + SATA and now I can see all drives on FreeBSD-5-CURRENT.  However, the 
> dmesg output looks a little weird:
> 
> ad2: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master SATA150
> ad3: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata1-slave SATA150
> ad4: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master SATA150
> ad6: 76319MB <ST380013AS> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master SATA150
> 
> All 4 drives are plugged in to the Silicon Image controller (4 ports).

Looks a bit wierd, but as I said last time I need a *full* dmesg to be 
able to tell.

> I'm of course happy to install a PCI-based SATA controller, once I'm 
> certain about which is best recommended for FreeBSD-5.  The jury seems 
> out on Highpoint and Promise.  Anyone care to comment?

Promise is the choice IMO.

> The dmesg output should probably read master/slave master/slave... ?

Depends on controller type and setup, from the above 4 lines noone can 
tell you what you should have.

-- 
-Søren



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40A77686.6010807>