Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:14:06 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Frank <frank_s@bellsouth.net> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd) Message-ID: <1159427646.671.31.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060927172701.M35705@Ace.nina.org> References: <20060927165559.V35705@Ace.nina.org> <451AE94E.2030305@rogers.com> <20060927172701.M35705@Ace.nina.org>
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On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 17:31 -0400, Frank wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > Frank wrote: > >> I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response. > >> > >> I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall > >> could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install. I had to mount the CD in > >> another machine and do a NFS install. > > > > SATA optical drives are not supported, neither is your brand new gaming sound > > card. This is far from being a show stopper. Please consult the hardware > > notes in the future before complaining on the lists. > > The Hardware Notes do not mention SATA at all except for RAID controllers. Just FYI, We've been looking at integrating the supported hardware info from the ata(4) manual page into the hardware notes. This *should* at least kill some of the confusion that always surrounds what SATA/ATA stuff we support and what we don't. -- Joel
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