Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem
Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller. It seems that the ITE device is a RAID controller, and the BIOS and the 5.4 FreeBSD installer dont see the HDD at all. Which is not very useful! The mobo has a SATA port as well, and the question is Does 5.4 support SATA drives for install? I think I can tell the BIOS to make a SATA drive 'look like' an IDE drive. (sent to hackers also for this followup question) As a followup - Does anyone know of any support re the ITE device? CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775 M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533 HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black TapeCertance DDS5 Tape Drive SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card PSU 600Watt -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller. It seems that the ITE device is a RAID controller, and the BIOS and the 5.4 FreeBSD installer dont see the HDD at all. Which is not very useful! The ASUS site doesn't mention what type the ITE controller is. According to the ata(4) manual page, only the IT8211F and IT8212F are supported. But according to the motherboard layout drawing in the manual, it is indeed a IT8211F, so it should be supported. Are you sure it is enabled? The mobo has a SATA port as well, and the question is Does 5.4 support SATA drives for install? Yes. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpSOqcPfiaWN.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem
-Original Message- From: Roland Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:51AM +1100, Murray Taylor wrote: Hi all, I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a showstopper. The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE controller while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller. It seems that the ITE device is a RAID controller, and the BIOS and the 5.4 FreeBSD installer dont see the HDD at all. Which is not very useful! The ASUS site doesn't mention what type the ITE controller is. According to the ata(4) manual page, only the IT8211F and IT8212F are supported. But according to the motherboard layout drawing in the manual, it is indeed a IT8211F, so it should be supported. Are you sure it is enabled? I believe that it is 'enabled' in that there is a momentary flash of the ITE scanning and I think the disk is found as I reckon I can catch something like this ??? 0: ST3300 UDMA? ??? 1: ??? 2: ??? 3: where the ? are characters I havent caught. But it never appears in the BIOS report. And the installer certainly doesnt talk to it at all. The mobo has a SATA port as well, and the question is Does 5.4 support SATA drives for install? Yes. Roland -- mjt --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
