freebsd stable - Oct 2005 - No SATA disks appear on E7520 with 5.4-RELEASE

Hello,

I just got some SuperMicro 6014H-T servers in the door.  Nice, as ever,
but, uhm, no FreeBSD.

I've got two Western Digital 80GB SATA drives in here, which I intend to
gmirror.

The system comes with this funky Adaptec thing that does a "fake RAID"
sort of thing where it marks the disks and then lets a custom
Windows/Linux driver actually do the RAID.  I have that set to Disable,
though it still babbles out its messages during boot.

What I get is the system to boot the install disk, but no disks appear.

So, I hit the BIOS and check out "Native Mode Operation" which
supports
"Serial ATA, Parallel ATA, Auto, or Both" ... *whistles*  My
understanding is I want to disable Native Mode, else I'll see some
driverless PCI devices.

IF I boot with "Auto" (native mode ON) I see ONE of these:
pci3: <mass storage, RAID> at device 4.0 (no driver attached)

(So, it looks like maybe it is seeing the Adaptec RAID, sort of?  That's
not right ... I even tried creating / breaking up the RAID set, to no
avail.)

IF I boot with "Parallel ATA" (native mode OFF ... remap SATA devices
to
PATA devices?) I see a bunch of these:
ata2-master: stat=0x14 err=0x14 lsb=0x14 msb=0x14

The curious and capable are welcome to view my verbose boot output:
http://ratchet.nebcorp.com/~djh/native-Auto.txt
http://ratchet.nebcorp.com/~djh/native-Both.txt
http://ratchet.nebcorp.com/~djh/native-PATA.txt

The latter two are identical except for CPU speed detect.

Any advice?  The plan is to have these hosting a new production system
next week.  (I guess I should never agree to purchase a bunch of servers
without testing them first, eh?  The 6013P-Ts have been good to us ...)

Thanks in advance for assistance.  If someone wants to test code, I can
probably oblige ... though it it rather difficult, given that I can't
get on the disks.

I'll give 5.3 a go, meanwhile ...

-danny

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:13:21PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote:
> I'll give 5.3 a go, meanwhile ...
... same old story, no SATA disks ...

-danny

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Danny Howard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just got some SuperMicro 6014H-T servers in the door.  Nice, as ever,
> but, uhm, no FreeBSD.
> 
> I've got two Western Digital 80GB SATA drives in here, which I intend
to
> gmirror.
  Today a co-worker was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-B5 on a Asus 
motherboard with SiS chipset (which I dislike but it wasn't our choice). 
He was using the same WD SATA 80GB drive and it wasn't detected. With 
5.4 it worked. I've not researched that much yet though but it seems 
like some kind of regression.

  The mobo is a P4S8000-MX (weird model) which comes with a SiS 964 
chipset.

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Giovanni P. Tirloni