From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 22:53:17 2005 Return-Path: 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 81B0F16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:53:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB21C43D39 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from security@jim-liesl.org) Received: from daemon.jim-liesl.org ([69.170.98.158]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050311225317.FXRZ7277.mta10.adelphia.net@daemon.jim-liesl.org> for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:53:17 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.1.10]) by daemon.jim-liesl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13B76179 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:53:20 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <42322142.3060200@jim-liesl.org> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:52:50 -0700 From: secmgr User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200503112157.j2BLvChb029410@the-macgregors.org> In-Reply-To: <200503112157.j2BLvChb029410@the-macgregors.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: New Nforce2 variant doesn't recognize SATA as SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 11 Mar 2005 22:53:17 -0000 Rob MacGregor wrote: >On Friday, March 11, 2005 5:26 PM, secmgr <> unleashed the infinite monkeys and >produced: > > > >>Failing that, is there a definitive list of SATA PCI boards which >>FreeBSD does full support? >> >> > >See the release notes for the version of FreeBSD you're using. For 5.3 that's >http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-i386.html#DISK > > Well, thanks, but I looked there before I bought the board. 1. I challange you to derive from that page a list of supported PCI SATA adapters (and I don't mean RAID adapters like from highpoint or 3ware) 2. Even following the link to ata(4), what you get is a list of supported chips (some pata, some sata, not specifed as to which is which), NOT a list of supported boards. Within that was a reference that the Nforce II chipset WAS supported, which is why I bought what I did. Now you may say, "well, the mfg added to the chipset. Thats not FreeBSD's problem". Yes and no. The documentation isn't definitive as to what is supported. If the doc's had said "Nforce II PATA", then I would have questioned support of SATA before I purchased, but you can't tell that from the chip list. jim