Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:57:14 +0100 From: "Josef Karthauser" <joe.karthauser@geomerics.com> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AHCI and correct drive geometry? Message-ID: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C476A7@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net> In-Reply-To: <20080416081451.GA22164@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C472F7@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net> <20080416081451.GA22164@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu@freebsd.org] > Sent: 16 April 2008 09:15 > To: Josef Karthauser > Cc: stable@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > So what's the word on AHCI and bios drive geometry? I'm having a real > > pain of a time trying to get some 750gb sata drives running on my > > FreeBSD7 box in AHCI mode. It doesn't seem to matter what disk > geometry > > I suggest to sysinstall, something complains of an invalid disk upon > > booting it. > > > > Actually, in AHCI mode the bios screen doesn't report any information > on > > drive geometry, so all bets appear to be off in giving sysinstall the > > correct figures. > > I have no problems using AHCI on our Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-T+ > systems, which are Intel ICH7-based, and with disks ranging up to > 500GB. > There are no disk geometry issues I encounter. > > Here's an example of one of the heavily-loaded boxes. The boot/OS disk > is ad4. > > atapci1: <Intel AHCI controller> port 0x30e8-0x30ef,0x30dc- > 0x30df,0x30e0-0x30e7,0x30d8-0x30db,0x30b0-0x30bf mem 0xe8600400- > 0xe86007ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 > atapci1: [ITHREAD] > atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports detected > ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 > ata2: [ITHREAD] > ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 > ata3: [ITHREAD] > ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1 > ata4: [ITHREAD] > ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 > ata5: [ITHREAD] > > ad4: 190782MB <WDC WD2000JD-00HBB0 08.02D08> at ata2-master SATA150 > ad6: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 12.01C02> at ata3-master SATA300 > ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata4-master SATA300 > ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0 12.01C01> at ata5-master SATA300 It looks like the problem was that there was no active partition set! Joe
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