Jisakiel wrote: > Greetings. I was trying to install FreeBSD 7 on an old machine to make it a > fileserver. Machine is an AMD K7 1200 on an Abit AN-7 mobo (nforce2 400), > which has booted Freebsd 7.0 RC1 beforehand (for testing ZFS; only ACPI > didn't work as it hung it). > > I recently bought a PCI SATA card on the cheap variety, Promise SATA300 > TX2Plus, and a couple of 500GB Maxtors. Unfortunately, when any hard drive > (both of the 500's and an older 250 Maxtor which I use) is plugged to the > SATA ports of the pci card I get an instantaneous reboot when trying to boot > the bootonly cd (it doesn't reach the bootloader). If no disks are plugged it > works but hangs while booting (with ACPI disabled). > > Things I tried: > > - Booting another OS. Card works perfectly both in linux (2.6.24) and > windows, with the two hard drives visible. > - Leaving just one SATA drive connected to the whole system through the PCI > card. It doesn't matter which drive I let, both the 250G and the 500G make it > reboot. > - Swapping the power cable. > - Unplugging my former 2 drives to ease the load on the Enermax 365W power > supply. It works in Windows though, with everything on... > - Disabling both integrated SATA of the motherboard (SI3112 which works both > in linux and freebsd), and integrated firewire (just in case). > - Moving the PCI card to another slot. I only have another pci device, a > soundcard, and moving it changed the bios boot order (first the pci, then the > integrated sata or viceversa) with no change at all afterwards. > - Trying 6.3 livecd. Same insta-reboot. > - Updating the card's bios. There is no newer one, 1.0.0.34 is what came and > what's on the promise web. > > Is there any way to make this card work on FreeBSD 7, or anything else that I > could try? I bought it specifically for that; I might be in time to return > it, though I'd have to buy another one on the same price range then (perhaps > Promise FastTrak TX2300, HightPoint RocketRaid 1520 or Adaptec 1210SA which I > seem to recall that doesn't work too well on linux). Otherwise I'd be more > than willing to help debugging it ^^. > > Thanks everybody... > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
For what its worth, I have a RocketRaid 1520 in my fileserver at home that I've been using for over a year without any problems: atapci0: <HighPoint HPT372N UDMA133 controller> port 0xff00-0xff07,0xfe00-0xfe03 ,0xfd00-0xfd07,0xfc00-0xfc03,0xec00-0xecff irq 17 at device 8.0 on pci0 ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 ... ad4: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831AS 3.03> at ata2-master UDMA133 ad6: 286168MB <Seagate ST3300831AS 3.03> at ata3-master UDMA133 ar0: 286168MB <HighPoint v2 RocketRAID RAID1> status: READY -Proto _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
