Re: 8.0-beta3 does not detect several ata channels

On 8/31/09 5:54 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a hp proliant ML115 with 6 sata ports which run in ATA mode (bios
> doesn't appear to give the option to use AHCI).  On freebsd 7.x, all
> channels are detected.  On freebsd8.0-beta3, the disks attached to the
> first two SATA ports are not detected, although it detects the ports
> themselves.
> 
> I've attached a verbose dmesg from freebsd 7.1 and 8.0-beta3.
> 
> Any ideas on what's going on here?  This seems like a nasty regression.

There are 3 PRs about this problem: 128686, 132372, 137942.

i386 version should recognize the disks. amd64 does when you set
hw.pci.mcfg=0 in loader.conf.

Cheers,
Florian