Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:04:43 -0400 From: James Tanis <jtanis@mindspring.com> To: madsen@vijit.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA \\ Promise PDC20376 \\ Promise TX2 Message-ID: <200307251904.43281.jtanis@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20030724093309.9231.qmail@eunited.vijit.com> References: <20030724093309.9231.qmail@eunited.vijit.com>
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SIIG's SiI 3112, this is a plain vanilla card - no raid, works perfectly fine for me. I am using 5.1-current though, I do not think support for SIIG's cards were included in 5.1 release. On Thursday 24 July 2003 05:33, madsen@vijit.com wrote: > I'm trying to get a single SATA drive running on my computer (MSI K7N2 > Delta ILSR) which uses the Promise PDC20376. If I don't configure the > drive in an array, FreeBSD 5.1 can access the drive just fine, but > Windoze XP Pro doesn't see it, and neither does any other bootable > utility. If I do configure it as a single "striped" drive in an array > (there is no JBOD option according to MSI support), FreeBSD gets an > "access error" when trying to do ANYTHING with the drive. But of > course, 'doze and everything else sees it just fine. > > And I can't seem to boot from the drive no matter what. Yes, I've > changed the boot devices in the BIOS, trying all "HDD-x" selections. > It'll boot from my SCSI drive (FreeBSD), though. :-) > > I'm looking for a controller that will (1) handle a single SATA disk > with no problems or hassles; (2) work with both 'doze and FreeBSD. It > looks like the Promise FastTrak S150 TX2 is supported by both and the > specs say it does JBOD, so I'm thinking of that one. However, all I can > find is the TX2 __PLUS__ model, not the "plain" TX2. Is that a problem > for the FreeBSD [4.8,5.1] driver? > > Or, does anyone have any better suggestion on how I can best get an SATA > drive working here? > > Thanks! > > Dave Madsen ---dcm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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