FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

I can confirm the problems mentioned originally by Shaun
Sabo. I'm 
running FreeBSD-current on a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
in i386 
mode. Since I run "current" I'm used to certain
side effects that 
require a livefs to undo some damage  I have
SATA disks in raid mode 
which work just fine. Also I have a SATA dvdburner, which
although able 
to boot either the install cd's and livefs cds, is not able
to mount the 
fixit livefs ("fixit" prompt) mentioned in the
previous posts. I need to 
attach my old ide cdrom drive to be able to do that. I'm
pretty much 
used to this annoyance by now, but maybe it is a driver
thing that needs 
to be looked into?

Ralph Zitz.
<http://www
.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=148&l4=0&a
mp;model=375&modelmenu=1> 

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This might not be relevant to this issue, but how is the
AHCI support?
Is AHCI support in 7 or -CURRENT at all?

On Sat, 10 May 2008 22:09:08 +0200
Ralph Zitz <ralphimada.sdu.dk> wrote:

> I can confirm the problems mentioned originally by
Shaun Sabo. I'm 
> running FreeBSD-current on a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
motherboard in i386 
> mode. Since I run "current" I'm used to
certain side effects that 
> require a livefs to undo some damage  I have
SATA disks in raid
> mode which work just fine. Also I have a SATA
dvdburner, which
> although able to boot either the install cd's and
livefs cds, is not
> able to mount the fixit livefs ("fixit"
prompt) mentioned in the
> previous posts. I need to attach my old ide cdrom drive
to be able to
> do that. I'm pretty much used to this annoyance by now,
but maybe it
> is a driver thing that needs to be looked into?
> 
> Ralph Zitz.
> <http://www
.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=148&l4=0&a
mp;model=375&modelmenu=1> 
> 
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:08 AM, CZUCZY Gergely
<gergely.czuczyharmless.hu> wrote:
> This might not be relevant to this issue, but how is
the AHCI support?
> Is AHCI support in 7 or -CURRENT at all?

AHCI support is in 7 and -CURRENT fully working for me. 
What error
messages if any do you see on the console?

-aps
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 12:08:37PM +0200, CZUCZY Gergely
wrote:
> This might not be relevant to this issue, but how is
the AHCI support?
> Is AHCI support in 7 or -CURRENT at all?

AHCI support is in RELENG_6 and RELENG_7.  AHCI support, in
at least
RELENG_7, is "generic" in the sense that it should
work with most AHCI
implementations (such as ATI AHCI, I believe).

We use AHCI on our ICH7-based systems, running both RELENG_6
and
RELENG_7, without issues.

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The exact same error as the original poster. When choosing
the fixit 
option in the sysinstaller and then choosing CDROM/DVD to
mount the 
livfs it fails. It works with my old ide cdrom drive
however. The 
sysinstaller keeps on asking for the livefs cdrom to be
inserted - as if 
it cannot "find" it.

This system uses an nforce controller not ICH.

> AHCI support is in 7 and -CURRENT fully working for me.
 What error
> messages if any do you see on the console?
>
> -aps
>   

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