From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 07:14:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C7116A407 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:14:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B02243D72 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:14:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id E3C2A3815E; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:14:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av8-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CD73813F; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:14:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dude.automatvapen.se (81-229-112-193-no21.tbcn.telia.com [81.229.112.193]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B4C37E49; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:14:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Frank In-Reply-To: <20060927172701.M35705@Ace.nina.org> References: <20060927165559.V35705@Ace.nina.org> <451AE94E.2030305@rogers.com> <20060927172701.M35705@Ace.nina.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:14:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1159427646.671.31.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Jakubik , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd) 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: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:14:15 -0000 On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 17:31 -0400, Frank wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > Frank wrote: > >> I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response. > >> > >> I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall > >> could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install. I had to mount the CD in > >> another machine and do a NFS install. > > > > SATA optical drives are not supported, neither is your brand new gaming sound > > card. This is far from being a show stopper. Please consult the hardware > > notes in the future before complaining on the lists. > > The Hardware Notes do not mention SATA at all except for RAID controllers. Just FYI, We've been looking at integrating the supported hardware info from the ata(4) manual page into the hardware notes. This *should* at least kill some of the confusion that always surrounds what SATA/ATA stuff we support and what we don't. -- Joel