[BUGS] freebsd installation with SATA drivers

[Darren Worley]

Jon,
 
Have a real close look at the BIOS... and see what drives get recognized
after it 'craps out' Some older BIOS's have dodgy sata chipset firmware when
doing bridging between Sata and ATA, but generally if your drive is
recognise in the BIOS, all should be good for F/BSD. No drivers needed at
all. Sata is no difference in F/BSD to Pata. The devices still get
recognised as /dev/ad? etc.  If the BIOS finds the drive, but you still get
a 'cant find boot record/partition error', then search for the boot order
priority in the BIOS. I am also assuming your not dual booting, and only had
(if any) the standard F/BSD boot manager installed.
 
When you said you bought a new drive & changed memory (definitely not a
memory issue)... Did you successfully reinstall F/BSD v7 again on the new
drive and did the same thing happen again twice? If so, look very closely at
your Motherboard itself, as it might be time to retire it. Make sure your
changes to your BIOS settings are being kept after successive reboots. If
they disappear even once, then it _may_ be the 3V lithium  battery on the
Motherboard needs to be replaced, but most likely an EEprom/Flash (depends
on chipset board manufacturer etc). Usually the battery is used for the H/W
Real Time Clock. If you replace the battery and your settings still don't
get retained. Retire the Motherboard, as there is effective nothing you can
do (neither easily or cost effectively). 
 
Hope this help.
/~darren
 
 
 

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From: bugs-bounces at bugs.au.freebsd.org
[mailto:bugs-bounces at bugs.au.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of goku -
Sent: Friday, 26 September 2008 5:48 PM
To: BUGS - Generic chat
Subject: Re: [BUGS] freebsd installation with SATA drivers


Yes your right Edwin, but this is the problem.  I installed FreeBSD 7.0
without any problem.  It recognized the SATA hard drive.  But after 2 days
the whole system crapped out. It would just reboot and says that it is
looking for the boot record. So I thought it was the drive at first so I
bought another drive, then the same thing happened.  So I changed memory.
Again the problem came back.  So I took it to my friend's computer shop. I
showed him the message and he told me that I would need to install the SATA
drivers for FreeBSD. I got the motherboard driver on a CD and looked at it.
It has drivers for SUSE, REDHAT.  I know that FreeBSD support linux drivers.
My question is that when installing FreeBSD is there a option in the menu to
install 3rd party drivers?  Just like installing Windows there you hit the
F6 to install 3rd party drivers.

thanks  


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> 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.


Unless I'm fully mistaken, they should just come up as /dev/ad10 etc.

Edwin

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