Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:09:04 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> To: Fluffles <etc@fluffles.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce4 Serial ATA detects only 1 drive Message-ID: <20060316000904.GA57847@nargothrond.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <44184953.4020306@fluffles.net> References: <44184953.4020306@fluffles.net>
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 18:05:23 +0100, Fluffles wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm having problems detecting _both_ Serial ATA disks on my nForce4 > motherboard. > > FreeBSD successfully detects the first disk but not the second. Same > story when i swap the disks; only ad4 no ad6. This can't be a broken > hardware issue: i tried TWO motherboards of the same type and TWO sets > of harddrives (2x Hitachi T7K250 and 2x Maxtor MaxlineIII). Both > motherboards have the SAME problem. I tried flashing to newest BIOS, no > change. Same problem when i enable SATA RAID controller and stripe or > mirror the disks: only ad4 is detected. When i do this however, i do see > "stray irq7" just at the point where it should detect ad6. Please note > that on Microsoft Windows XP, everything runs smooth and without > problems. Right now i tried everything i know and don't know what to do. > > Hardware: > Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 motherboard > - nVidia GeForce 6100 northbridge > - nVidia nForce 410 MCP southbridge > > I tried 6.0-STABLE, 6.1-beta3 and 7.0-CURRENT (9 march 2006) using both > non-ACPI and ACPI mode. My system is stable, tested with MemTest86 and > Prime95 torture-test. With the Maxtor drives at least, there is a known problem with negotiation with nForce4 chipsets. Maxtor fixed it with a firmware upgrade. If you go to http://maxtor.custhelp.com click on "search the hard drive knoweldge base" and search for "NVidia". You'll see the list of affected firmware revs. I have a couple of MaxLine Pro 500 drives that work fine with an NForce4 motherboard (Asus A8N32-SLI) under RELENG_6 as of today (I installed with 6.1-BETA3). My drives came with firmware newer than the rev that had the problem. This may not be your problem, though, since Windows works okay. But, it's something to check. > Should i file a PR? Can anybody tell me what is going wrong and why? I'm > feeling this is a little bug in FreeBSD which could be fixed easily. I'd > appreciate any feedback! > > Many thanks! > > - Veronica > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@FreeBSD.ORG
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