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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2003 23:06:53 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sata on -stable
Message-ID:  <200312022206.hB2M6ruW047227@spider.deepcore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <012401c3b8f9$d1a513d0$43c8a8c0@orac>

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It seems Duncan Barclay wrote:
> Hi Soren and all,
> 
> Having just got a nice new motherboard, a PATA drive and a bunch of SATA
> disks I discover that my homework wasn't too good. -stable isn't detecting
> the VIA-8237 controller, and in particuluar it is not finding the SATA
> disks.
> 
> I can hack the device recognition code to pick up the 8237 and set UDMA133
> mode on the PATA drive I have in the machine, but I cannot seem to find my
> two SATA drives. Any suggestions on how to at least find the drives - I
> don't need the h/w RAID as I was going to use Vinum anyway.

The SATA part of the VIA needs a bit more work, you can how its done in
current, not too bad just a few lines of code..

-Søren
                       .. but it works under windows!!



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