Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:57:11 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" <itz@mushinsky.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SATA problems (Abit IP35-Pro) Message-ID: <bbe9e35d0803141057g7cae815bl8d80b0429280627b@mail.gmail.com>
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I am setting up a new system with Abit IP35-Pro (ich9r), 2 WD SATA drives on the controller. There is also a SATA DVDRW to boot from. With the default SATA setup (SATA/IDE) the system cannot find any SATA drive. I was able to boot the install disk, attaching an old IDE CDROM, but still could not make it see the hard drive. If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some ACPI errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry is "incorrect", and insists on a different one (it says the drives have 476gb rather than 500gb). I can install with this AHCI setup, but have no idea what the implications are. Is there a known fix for SATA/IDE? Or is AHCI better?
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