Sysinstall does not define SATA

Jeremy Chadwick
2010-02-26T15:19:36Z

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:21:52PM +0300, oleg wrote:
> Got some trouble. The Sysinstall program of FreeBSD 8.0 release does
> not define SATA hard drives. Can`t create slices.
> But that machine works correctly by Windows.
> See attached dmesg file.

The hard disks are seen by the system as classic PATA disks, operating
in PIO4 mode, which probably indicates your BIOS is set to run the
controller in "Emulation" mode.  sysinstall should, I would think, see
these disks since the kernel does.

atapci1: <GENERIC ATA controller> port
0xd480-0xd487,0xd400-0xd403,0xd080-0xd087,0xd000-0xd003,0xcc00-0xcc0f mem
0xf9f76000-0xf9f77fff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
ad4: 305245MB <SAMSUNG HD321HJ 1AC01118> at ata2-master PIO4
ad6: 476940MB <Seagate ST3500418AS CC38> at ata3-master PIO4

I've never seen the vendor string "GENERIC ATA controller" before.
What
exact motherboard or SATA controller card is this?  Can you provide a
link to it?

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