Does the RAID BIOS output any thing to the console after the initial POST? (Most RAID BIOS I've seen have some sort of configuration utility/detection spam during/just after POST) Perhaps it's outputting some funk which puts the console in a strange state? I know the bootloader stuff changed a bit after 4.x going into 5.x, (When we got beastie) maybe before there was some kind of console reset that we don't have now? >From talking to Kimmo on IRC, it seems like this happens before the kernel has even loaded, (the bootloader looks screwed) so I doubt it is a driver issue. Perhaps you should see if booting FreeBSD via GRUB makes any difference. -- Regards, Chris Gilbert Rink Springer wrote: >Hi Kimmo, > > > >>My ASUS PSCH-SR/SATA won't work in FreeBSD versions over 4.x. I have >>tested 5.x, 6.x and even a current 7.x one. >> >> > >Try disabling the RAID BIOS; I have an ASUS PCH-DR which shows exactly >the same behaviour. Once I got rid of the on-board Promise RAID (Just >removing the drives did the trick), it would no longer install its BIOS >then and things would work perfectly. > >I had exactly the same symptoms you describe (overwriting screen >charachters, freezes etc). > >Seems to me the RAID BIOS is broken in same way. However, I have not yet >found a way to upgrade it. Linux worked in my case as well, but it does >not seem to support the RAID out-of-box (I couldn't get it to work with >a vanilla kernel, anyway), which hints even stronger that it is the >cause of the evil... no clue why FreeBSD 4.x works, though. > >Good luck, let me know if this works. > > >Received on Tue Jun 13 2006 - 11:24:51 UTC
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