On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:18:32AM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > I didn't have this problem. System has AHCI in use, and the kernel is > > built to make use of modular atacore. Specifically: > > > > # Modular ATA > > device atacore # Core ATA functionality > > device ataisa # ISA bus support > > device atapci # PCI bus support; only generic chipset > > support > > device ataahci # AHCI SATA > > device ataintel # Intel > > How should STABLE user (not tracking freebsd-current@) learn about CAM ATA > configuration? > There is ahci(4) manual page in 8.0-PRERELEASE but no ada(4) that is linked > here.
I don't know. I'm waiting for someone to actually write documentation on this. I keep seeing commits talking about ATA disks via CAM (e.g. SCSI emulation for ATA disks), but the only thing I'm aware of that exists is SCSI emulation for ATAPI devices. > I've just tried "Modular ATA" configuration of Intel ICH7-based system plus > "device ahci" > minus all traditional ata(4) kernel configuration, the kernel builds fine > but boot messages do not show any attempt to detect my SATA HDD, > so root mount just fails (I use GEOM UFS labels in my /etc/fstab). > Typing ? at "mounroot" prompt I see only daX devices standing for my USB > cardreader > and no device for HDD. This sounds like a different problem. You may want to talk to mav@ about this. > It seems I miss ada(4) device and I cannot find it in 8.0 - not ada.ko nor > "device ada". Same. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
