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From: Jaco le Roux <jaco@videoafrica.co.za>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: SATA Hard disks are not detected on SiS 180/181 RAID Controller
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>Number:         121461
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [ata] SATA Hard disks are not detected on SiS 180/181 RAID Controller
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Mar 07 10:10:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 12 04:48:49 UTC 2009
>Originator:     Jaco le Roux
>Release:        7.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Private
>Environment:
Cannot install FreeBSD due to the problem experienced.
>Description:
After loading FreeBSD's 7.0 i386 install CD and entering 'sysinstall', a Standard Install does not detect any hard disks. Both hard disks in my machine is SATA, and I believe the problem does not occur with PATA disks (even though I do not have one to test). The SATA hard drives run off a SiS 180/181 RAID Controller (even though they are not in RAID mode, and there is no ATA support in the BIOS) which is part of the Asus P4S-800D series. During boot time, I can see the device being loaded/probed.

A similar ticket has been opened in the past: kern/87585, however I was not around then to test it.
>How-To-Repeat:
Simply insert any 6.3 or 7.0 FreeBSD install disk into a machine with only SATA hard drives. Load into sysinstall and do a standard install.
>Fix:
There are a few references, one of them is a ticket opened in the past: kern/87585

A similar problem cropped into NetBSD, one (possible) solution was:
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=netbsd-tech-kern&a=2004-11&m=494701

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: vwe 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 7 14:06:06 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  

Jaco, 

can you please try to boot verbose off a live CD and send us the dmesg? 
Also output of `pciconf -lv' and `atacontrol list' might be useful. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121461 

From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/121461: [ata] SATA Hard disks are not detected on SiS
	180/181 RAID Controller
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:28:13 +0300

 I've the same problem with SiS180. I hope that info in the following
 post should be enough -
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-November/038203.html
 (tested also on 8.0-CURRENT-200802 snapshot).
 
 
 Yuri
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open 
State-Changed-By: vwe 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 7 19:38:37 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  

Over to maintainer(s). 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->sos 
Responsible-Changed-By: vwe 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Mar 7 19:38:37 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

Over to maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121461 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: sos->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue May 12 04:48:38 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
sos@ is not actively working on ATA-related PRs. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121461 
>Unformatted:
