Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 22:48:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Charles Peterman <cjp@sandstorm.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor Ultra ata/133 controller, FreeBSD 4.[5,8], and the boot process Message-ID: <200305182048.h4IKmQGw022276@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <200305181636.44142.cjp@sandstorm.net>
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It seems Charles Peterman wrote: > > As it turns out, the latest rev of the Intel SDS2 motherboard also rev's its > ICH4 ide controller, turning it into a useless piece of PIO crap and > destroying my systems' performance and sucking down my weekend. > > After contacting Soren Schmidt concerning the state of the ata driver and > whether a quick hack would be appropriate, I decided to venture into using > a PCI add-on card controller, in this case the Maxtor Ultra ata/133 > controller. There is only one disk aside from the 3ware raid, which does not > show up as an ata device. > > The install CD for 4.5 installs to this drive without a problem, but it tells > me that the loan disk is at ad4. Upon reboot, the boot loader fails, > horribly, no loader found. Rebooting with the install CD, and going into the > loader's command line, I find that my disk is listed as disk2s1, and not the > disk4 I thought it would be. That sounds very strange unless you move it physically to the other channel.. However 4.5 is way too old for this purpose, try 4.8 that has a much better chance of supporting that board (I'm not sure which Serverworks chip it has one there, the docs I found for the SDS2 didn't tell)... > Is there a variable I could set during boot to get the disk to show up as ad0? > SImilar to the way removing ATA_STATIC_ID from the kernel compile does. no. -Søren
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