Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:39:23 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Sean Farley <sean@farley.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 DVD drive access in AHCI/SATA mode Message-ID: <471FC99B.1030704@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710241703380.39560@thor.farley.org> References: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710241703380.39560@thor.farley.org>
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Sean Farley wrote: > I have recently assembled a new system with a SATA DVD drive. > Unfortunately, it seems to not be supported FreeBSD 7: > > ata7: <ATA channel 5> on atapci0 > ata7: SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet > ata7: [ITHREAD] This is (semi-) fixed in 8-Current (reports sata/300 as sata/150 on actual storage devices) > > > I am using software (BIOS) RAID on a P5K-E/WiFi (Intel P35 chipset) > board. Sadly, the option to manually configure the DVD drive is only > available when in IDE mode. P35's in general have some issues. For example I am still totally unable to see my PATA drives if I have SATA drive(s) installed. > > In the interim, is it possible to force the drive to IDE (really UDMA) > mode? I tried a few attempts at the kernel source to force it to UDMA33 > at the point of the warning in ata-chipset.c, but these resulted in > panics. I have an old 7 patch if you want it.
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