Re: Problems Installing to PowerEdge 850 with SATA Drive

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> Lynn A. Roth writes:
> | I have two new Dell Poweredge 850 machines.  They have an Intel ICH7 
> | chipset.  When I boot FreeBSD 6 RC1, the controller is identified, but 
> | any drives connected to the SATA ports are not detected.  The drive that 
> | is included with the system is a Seagate 7200.7 drive.  I also tried a 
> | Maxtor.
> 
> I can confirm the problem on the PE850.  I have it working with my
> latest 4.X SATA patches (which I haven't published yet).  I might
> be able to look into this.
> 
> FWIW, I my code these SATA registers in 4.X before the become alive:
>    ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 0 error 4050000 scontrol 0 0 1
>    ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 113 error 4050000 scontrol 0 0 1
>    ata2: Intel SATA P0 status 113 error 0 scontrol 0 0 1
>    ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 0 error 4050000 scontrol 0 1 1
>    ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 113 error 4050000 scontrol 0 1 1
>    ata3: Intel SATA P1 status 113 error 0 scontrol 0 1 1
> On other Intel controllers they I don't have to acknowledge the 
> errors off the bat.
> 
> Doug A.

If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.  If there is a place 
you can point me to start working with it, that would be great too.

Thanks,
Lynn