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Date:      Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:18:42 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        DMVN <dmvn@mccme.ru>, DMVN <dmvncorporation@yandex.ru>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Serial ATA hard drives support
Message-ID:  <3BC092B8-42A5-4154-A10B-639E85DB720B@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <1437276967.20050710213607@mccme.ru>
References:  <1437276967.20050710213607@mccme.ru>

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On Jul 10, 2005, at 12:36 PM, DMVN wrote:

> Q: Does the FreeBSD 5.4 support SerialATA hard drives?
> I tried to install previous version (5.3) on the machine
> with 160GB Seagate Barracuda (8mb cache) drive (ST3160023AS).
> It said something like "no hard drive found".

Did it find a controller?

> Where is the problem? As far as I know, Seagate don't provide
> drivers for *nix systems. What I should do?

No reason for Seagate to provide drivers as hard drives are mostly  
generic. What you need is for FreeBSD to see your controller before  
it can see your drives.

I've had a pair of Hitachi SATA drives since sometime around 5.1.

atapci1: <Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller> port 0xfea0-0xfeaf, 
0xfe30-0xfe33,0xfe20-0xfe27,0xfe10-0xfe13,0xfe00-0xfe07 irq 9 at  
device 31.2 on pci0
ad4: 157066MB <HDS722516VLSA80/V34OA60A> [319120/16/63] at ata2- 
master SATA150
ad6: 157066MB <HDS722516VLSA80/V34OA60A> [319120/16/63] at ata3- 
master SATA150

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.




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