Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:37:22 -0000 From: "Graeme Dargie" <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Motherboard support Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F78973929560F@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> In-Reply-To: <1232534153.1141.16.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F78973929560C@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <1232534153.1141.16.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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Well I spent a little more time having a look in the bios Here are the results from various settings and a potential solution. SATA controller in Native IDE mode All drives show as IDE at the POST summary screen on boot In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-3 The disks show =20 SATA Ports 4&5 No disks show Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113> at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata5-master SATA300 SATA Controller in AHCI Mode All drives show up on RAID Controller POST summary screen In FreeBSD SATA Ports 0-5 now show disks connected Dmesg shows the following ad4: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01113> at ata2-master SATA300 ad6: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata3-master SATA300 ad8: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata4-master SATA300 ad10: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 476940MB <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 GM4OA5CA> at ata7-master SATA300 I have read there have been problems with the realtek 8169/8111c NIC card on some systems with under FreeBSD, but I cant seem to find a solution to this. Regards Graeme=20 -----Original Message----- From: Da Rock [mailto:rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au]=20 Sent: 21 January 2009 10:36 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard support On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:58 +0000, Graeme Dargie wrote: > Hello, >=20 > =20 >=20 > I have built a machine with a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2, running Freebsd > 7.1. For the most part it is fine but I do have two problems >=20 > =20 >=20 > 1) The NIC a realtek 8111C keeps giving watchdog timeout messages > and the link state changes from up to down and back to up again. >=20 > =20 >=20 > 2) The two hard disks that are attached to the sata raid > controller are not seen by Freebsd, the raid card is set to native ide > as I want to use ZFS rather than the onboard raid system and all the > drives are present at post. I understand this motherboard uses a AMD740 > chipset and has 740 northbridge and a SB700 southbridge. >=20 > =20 >=20 > Any ideas tips pointers would be most welcome I'm not sure about the NIC, but I don't think the native ide or sata control matters in terms of zfs (I could be wrong, and please correct me if so experts). The sata controller should recognize the disks with or without raid, which freebsd should recognize then install on. I use sata in this mode on my systems, and freebsd works fine. Any software raid wouldn't care then as long as freebsd itself recognizes the drives. HTH _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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