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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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To: "Lynn A. Roth" <lynnr.junk@interactivefs.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive
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Lynn A. Roth writes:
| Lynn A. Roth wrote:
| > 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 with -current:
| >>
| > <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.
| > 
| > Thanks for this patch.
| > Scott from pfSense integrated this into his kernel and it worked great 
| > for me.
| > 
| > Thanks again.
| 
| Can this be committed sometime to current?

I doubt it.  Hopefully Soren will add support in some way.  Atleast this
is a proof of concept of the problem that needs to be implemented.  Feel
free to follow up with Soren (sos@freebsd.org).

Doug A.