From looking at the ata-chipset.c and ata-pci.c code, it appears that at least some code has been added to at least see the Controller and ports.

ata-chipset.c:     { ATA_I82801GB,    0, 0, 0x00, ATA_UDMA5, "Intel ICH7" },
ata-chipset.c:     { ATA_I82801GB_S1, 0, 0, 0x00, ATA_SA150, "Intel ICH7" },
ata-chipset.c:     { ATA_I82801GB_R1, 0, 0, 0x00, ATA_SA150, "Intel ICH7" },
ata-chipset.c:     { ATA_I82801GB_M,  0, 0, 0x00, ATA_SA150, "Intel ICH7" },
ata-chipset.c:     { ATA_I82801GB_AH, 0, 0, 0x00, ATA_SA150, "Intel ICH7" },
ata-pci.h:#define ATA_I82801GB            0x27df8086
ata-pci.h:#define ATA_I82801GB_S1         0x27c08086
ata-pci.h:#define ATA_I82801GB_R1         0x27c38086
ata-pci.h:#define ATA_I82801GB_AH         0x27c18086
ata-pci.h:#define ATA_I82801GB_M          0x27c58086


I'm not a kernel programmer, but since it does list the controller on boot, I think there is at least some support for the ICH7.

Lynn




Mark Wass wrote:
I have been considering using a Dell 850 for PFSense so I am very interested how this turns out.

I did find this info on the FreeBSD web site.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ata&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-current&format=html

If you read down the list you will see the driver only supports the following Intel chipsets.

Intel:       PIIX, PIIX3, PIIX4, ICH, ICH0, ICH2, ICH3, ICH4, ICH5, ICH6.


Mark


Espen Johansen wrote:

Have you tried to change the modes of the controller in BIOS ?
Like native vs. legacy mode and RAID mode vs. SATA mode etc ?
The ICH7 support of FreeBSD might also be to blame. I'm not sure how good it
is atm.

-lsf

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynn A. Roth
Sent: 1. november 2005 21:12
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: [pfSense Support] Re: Trouble installing to Dell PowerEdge 850

Here is dmesg -a after booting verbose. The drive is connected to Channel 0 on the SATA controller.

Lynn




Scott Ullrich wrote:
From the loader prompt (Press ENTER to boot yadda yadda) try to boot
-v and then post dmesg -a

Scott


On 11/1/05, Lynn A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I get the same thing with FreeBSD 6.0 RC1.  It boots to the installer
and then when attempting to install, it says it can't find a disk.  The
controller is found as a SATA.  Here is the relevant portion of dmesg
(this is from pfSense, but the RC1 looked the same)

atapci0: <Intel ICH7 UDMA100 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
atapci1: <Intel ICH7 SATA150 controller> port
0xac98-0xac9f,0xac90-0xac93,0xac80-0xac87,0xac78-0xac7b,0xac60-0xac6f
mem 0xfeb00000-0xfeb003ff irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1
ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1


Lynn




Scott Ullrich wrote:

It appears that FreeBSD is not seeing this drive as attached for some
reason.   Can you try a FreeBSD RC disk?

On 11/1/05, Lynn A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Some more info:

when I run atacontrol info, it appears that the disk is not attached.  I
have booted to Linux and Windows installer and they both see the disk. I
believe that the SATA drive should be on ATA channel 2. (According to th
e boot messages, which show the ICH7 SATA Controller being detected with
4 channels, 2-5)

# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
  Master: acd0 <HL-DT-ST GCR-8240N/1.06> ATA/ATAPI revision 4
  Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 1:
  Master:      no device present
  Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 2:
  Master:      no device present
  Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 3:
  Master:      no device present
  Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 4:
  Master:      no device present
  Slave:       no device present
ATA channel 5:
  Master:      no device present
  Slave:       no device present



Scott Ullrich wrote:


Please send the contents of /tmp/ after you receive the error message.
CTRL-C a number of times to break back to the shell and then SCP
then files somewhere.

Scott


On 11/1/05, Lynn A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



I should also note that it has a single SATA drive on the first SATA
connection.  I get the same issue with both of the two identical
systems.
Lynn


Scott Ullrich wrote:



What version?

On 11/1/05, Lynn A. Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




I'm having trouble installing pfSense to my new Dell PE 850.

The installer doesn't find a disk.  If I do an lsdev before booting,
I
see the disk and partitions.  The system has a ICH7 chipset, which
appears to be problematic at this point in time.  Does anyone have
any
idea how I could get this installed?  Is there a way to easily
update
the kernel in the installer?  Would that even help?

Thanks.

Lynn A. Roth
Network Administrator
Interactive Financial Solutions, Inc.



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