[BUGS] freebsd installation with SATA drivers

goku - goku3g at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 17:50:58 EST 2008


Hi Andrew, the SATA controller is built in to the motherboard.

Jon

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:43:30PM -1000, goku - wrote:
> > How do you install SATA driver when installing FreeBSD 7.0.  I can't seem
> to
> > find how to do it.
>
> Can you elaborate on the question a little?  In my experience,
> it "just works", same as ever.  There are no special drivers to
> load, that I am aware of.  Three of the FreeBSD systems that I
> use have SATA drives, and they work/install just the same as the
> old parallel ATA drives.
>
> On the other hand, I believe that there exist some funky
> separate-controller SATA RAID systems that cause people grief,
> but you haven't specified one of those, and I wouldn't be able
> to help if you had...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
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