On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:19:39PM +0800, yoke an wrote: > Hi , > > We have recently purchased Tyan Transport GX21 (B2735G21S2) with Tiger > i7501R S2735-8M motherboard. I'm trying to install FreeBSD v4.8 but it > cannot detect my hard disk during the installation. I think the > problem should be the SATA driver. Coz I'm currently using SATA > instead of IDE/ATAPI. > > Is FreeBSD v4.8 support SATA or any available free downld driver for > SATA? Can I use "ICH5-R SATA Chip driver " for supporting FreeBSD > v4.8? If yes, where can i downld it? > > HW spec: > HDD model: Seagate, ST380013AS. > Motherboard : Tiger i7501R S2735-8M > > Hope the above info is sufficient for you.
My suggestion is that you use FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE instead of 4.8-RELEASE, that can provide better support for SATA and don't need the extra effort backporting the driver. FreeBSD can be freely obtained from most official FreeBSD mirrors, and you can support the development of FreeBSD, through purchasing CD sets from FreeBSD Mall and other vendors listed on www.freebsd.org Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree net> http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information.
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