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From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
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Subject: Re: Installing 6.1-R on Dell Powervault 745N
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:46:21PM +0800, Lin Jui-Nan Eric wrote:
>   We have a Dell Powervault 745N and want to install FreeBSD 6.1-R.
> But the installer complains that it can not find out any hard disk.
> Since the dmesg contains ata2~5, I think the controller is recognized
> by FreeBSD, but it cannot get the SATA drive.
> 
> The dmesg and result of running pciconf -lv is in this PR:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/103624

The controller (which you label in your PR as "some funny RAID
controller") is an Intel 31244:

atapci0: <Intel 31244 SATA150 controller> mem 0xfe1ff000-0xfe1fffff irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0

Some history: this controller was discussed back in 2005:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-June/050827.html

The appropriate code appears to have been committed to FreeBSD as
of June 2005:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49

There was a DMA-related fix for this controller committed in February 2006:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-pci.h#rev1.49.2.7

Soren, do you have any ideas?

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