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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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To: Sean Hamilton <sh@bel.bc.ca>
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Subject: Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise
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It seems Sean Hamilton wrote:
>   I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board.
> Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on
> the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller,
> am I safe in assuming this will not be supported for some time?

Probably, VIA has newer been keen on sharing docs, so this can take some
time to get done and might just stall until I get such HW here to do the
needed magic on.

>   I have two Asus boards (A7V8X and A7V) which have in common a Promise ATA
> controller. Both of these boards hang up for about a minute during the boot
> of 5.1-RELEASE, and emit messages about ad* devices being reset -- I cannot
> paste them verbatim as they seem to have been omitted from my dmesg. In the
> case of the A7V8X, the controller is unused and disabled in the BIOS. Has
> this been rectified for 5.2?

Should not happen on -current.

-Søren