From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 6 17:44:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F209106566C for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:44:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from David.Boyd@insightbb.com) Received: from mxsf03.insightbb.com (mxsf03.insightbb.com [74.128.0.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E728FC12 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from David.Boyd@insightbb.com) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,612,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="294048864" Received: from unknown (HELO asav02.insightbb.com) ([172.31.249.124]) by mxsf03.insightbb.com with ESMTP; 06 Apr 2008 13:14:33 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAGqi+EdKgEWp/2dsb2JhbACpIAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,612,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="228729125" Received: from 74-128-69-169.dhcp.insightbb.com (HELO sneezy) ([74.128.69.169]) by asav02.insightbb.com with SMTP; 06 Apr 2008 13:14:33 -0400 From: "David Boyd" To: Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:14:33 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Importance: Normal Subject: Promise SX4060 (PDC20621) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:44:44 -0000 I'm attempting to convert a computer that was running Windows XP to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. The computer came with a Promise SX4060 ATA RAID controller with a 120GB RAID-1 array. The motherboard is an Intel D845WN. The Promise controller contains a chip marked PDC20621. The chipset is listed in the man page for ata. During boot, the system continually reports "SETFEATURES" error messages for both ad4 and ad8 but never reports seeing the ar0 disc. A google of FreeBSD and SX4060 returns several hits with this same set of errors being reported by Mark Kirkwood for 6.1-RC1. Was this problem resolved? Is this card supported? I can provide some details of the messages, but the volume of data prevents me from writing all of it. The messages are exactly the same ones from the complaint mentioned above. This computer is not in production (yet!), so I can try almost anything that you can suggest. I have reinstalled Windows XP to verify that the motherboard, controller and drives are usable. Thanks.