On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Neal Hogan <nealho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Vadim Zhukov <persg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2010/6/6 Neal Hogan <nealho...@gmail.com>: > ... >>> As it was already pointed, one disk is connected to AHCI-compatible controller. >>> >>>> ahci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ATI SBx00 SATA" rev 0x00: apic 4 int > ... >>>> pciide0 at pci0 dev 20 function 1 "ATI SB700 IDE" rev 0x00: DMA, >> >> This is not AHCI-compatible? What's the diff (besides size)? > > $ man ahci | head -4 > AHCI(4) OpenBSD Programmer's Manual AHCI(4) > > NAME > ahci - Advanced Host Controller Interface for Serial ATA > $ > > It's the controller, not the disk that matters. One of the > controllers is SATA, the other's not. > > >> I've no problem going into single user mode (as per suggestion) and >> dickin' around, but I find this a bit odd . . . no? > > What in particular makes it odd? That manual handling is necessary?
Don't act like this is normal. Where in the archives has this been reported? Like I said, I appreciate the difference and the suggestions. The archives require this post, because it is unexpected. Thanks for the help. > Trying to automatically handle the change in the installer would be > somewhere between fragile and impossible and create other problems. > "Hi, we changed your fstab to match 4.7, so if you boot a 4.6 kernel > you'll need to change it back. Good luck!" > > If you don't feel like crossing that bridge, you might be able to tell > the bios to run the controller in compatibility mode instead of the > better SATA mode and then you wouldn't need to change anything, but > it'll be slower. > > > Philip Guenther
