Re: PATA-SATA convertor drive inaccessibility (was 7.0-CURRENT MCP55 PATA to SATA convertor problems on Asus M2N32 WS Pro)

From: Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:48:09 +0200
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 11:20:23AM -0000, Mark Powell wrote:
> Replying to my own posts <sigh> :(
> 
> Surely this problem with PATA-SATA convertors not working is a minor oversight
> somewhere, if they are working fine in 6.2?
> Isn't this going to affect everyone with such convertors?
> Without wanting to cause offence, isn't that going to be a bit of an embarassing
> show stopper for 7.0-RELEASE?

Don't know about your problem, but I use such converters without
problems.

atapci1: <SiI 3114 SATA150 controller> port 0xeff0-0xeff7,0xefe4-0xefe7,0xefa8-0xefaf,0xefe0-0xefe3,0xef60-0xef6f mem 0xffafcc00-0xffafcfff irq 7 at device 15.0 on pci0
atapci1: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
ata3: [ITHREAD]
ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1
ata4: [ITHREAD]
ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1
ata5: [ITHREAD]
[...]
ad4: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07 0 VA5OA52A> at ata2-master UDMA100
ad6: 98166MB <IC35L100AVVA07 0 VA5OA52A> at ata3-master UDMA100

OS is -current from 12th 07 this year.


About your problem: there are SATA controllers out there that put
two SATA header onto the same channel.
In this case the PATA bridging can't work in that case, because they
have to be alone on each channel.
You might want to try a single drive first and test all SATA ports.
You have to know that those converters are not making PATA drives into
PATA, they bridge PATA over SATA, therefor FreeBSD knows and can even
control the PATA transfer-mode.

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