From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 15:19:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29D8106566B for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAAA8FC23 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by qmta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id me2H1d0030vp7WLAAfKTw5; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:27 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id mfKS1d0073S48mS8RfKTVh; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:27 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 900241E301A; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:19:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:19:25 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: oleg Message-ID: <20100226151925.GA23190@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall does not define SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:19:29 -0000 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:21:52PM +0300, oleg wrote: > Got some trouble. The Sysinstall program of FreeBSD 8.0 release does > not define SATA hard drives. Can`t create slices. > But that machine works correctly by Windows. > See attached dmesg file. The hard disks are seen by the system as classic PATA disks, operating in PIO4 mode, which probably indicates your BIOS is set to run the controller in "Emulation" mode. sysinstall should, I would think, see these disks since the kernel does. atapci1: port 0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xf9f76000-0xf9f77fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0 ata2: on atapci1 ata3: on atapci1 ad4: 305245MB at ata2-master PIO4 ad6: 476940MB at ata3-master PIO4 I've never seen the vendor string "GENERIC ATA controller" before. What exact motherboard or SATA controller card is this? Can you provide a link to it? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |