Re: nForce 430i doesn't recognise SATA devices

Andre Oppermann wrote:
> FreeBSD 7.0BETA4 can't be installed on a NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI /
> nForce 430i based ASUS P5N-E SLI board.  The nForce 430i south bridge
> SATA ports are detected SATA devices do not get probed or detected.
> It complains about timeouts and the device name is "unknown".
> FreeBSD 6.3RC1 doesn't work either.
>
> The relevant portions of the dmesg are below (the JMicron controller
> is only for an external ESATA port):
>
> ...
> atapci0: <JMicron AHCI controller> port 0xdf00-0xdf07,0xde00-0xde03,
> 0xdd00-0xdd07,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xdb00-0xdb0f mem 0xfdefe000-0xfdefffff
> irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
> atapci0: [ITHREAD]
> atapci0: AHCI Version 01.00 controller with 1 ports detected
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata2: [ITHREAD]
> ...
> atapci1: <nVidia nForce MCP51 UDMA133 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,
> 0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfd00-0xfd0f at device 13.0 on pci0
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata0: [ITHREAD]
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> ata1: [ITHREAD]
> atapci2: <nVidia nForce MCP51 SATA300 controller> port 0x9f0-0x9f7,
> 0xbf0-0xbf3,0x970-0x977,0xb70-0xb73,0xf800-0xf80f
> mem 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff irq 20 at device 14.0 on pci0
> atapci2: [ITHREAD]
> ata3: <ATA channel 0> on atapci2
> ata3: [ITHREAD]
> ata4: <ATA channel 1> on atapci2
> ata4: [ITHREAD]
> atapci3: <nVidia nForce MCP51 SATA300 controller> port 0x9e0-0x9e7,
> 0xbe0-0xbe3,0x960-0x967,0xb60-0xb63,0xf300-0xf30f
> mem 0xfe02c000-0xfe02cfff irq 21 at device 15.0 on pci0
> atapci3: [ITHREAD]
> ata5: <ATA channel 0> on atapci3
> ata5: [ITHREAD]
> ata6: <ATA channel 1> on atapci3
> ata6: [ITHREAD]
> ...
> unknown: timeout waiting to issue command
> unknown: error issuing ATA_IDENTIFY command
Interrupt routing is broken is my best bet, try without ACPI / apic ..

-Søren