Hi,

Im running FreeBSD v8.0 on Soekris 5501 without any problems.


/ Ebbe

> Simply put there seems to be a delay or 'race' on the SATA boot (I am
> running comBIOS 1.33).
>
> If I boot the system at 9600 baud, with a SATA disk, it will very
> reliably *NOT* see it on boot, if I 'boot -v' (verbose boot), it will
> see it (at 9600 baud), if I then increase the speed to 115200, it will
> not see the disk at regular boot or verbose boot.   My theory is that
> the 'extra' information that is required to be sent for verbose booting
> at 9600 slows it down enough for it to be probed and attached.  I have
> diffed the verbose boot at 9600 that worked and the one at 19200 that
> did not work and there are no differences between the 2 boot sessions.
>
> (note the comBIOS system seems to reliably see the disk, and hand over
> control to boot/loader and then the kernel, its just those probe
> routines that stall/fail.  I am open to it being a FreeBSD bug, I am
> hoping with your experience you've seen it before).  I went through the
> mailing lists and have found nothing so far related to this.
>
> --
> David E. Cross
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