[BUGS] freebsd installation with SATA drivers

[goku -]

Hi Darren,
I will do that and report back later today.  Thanks
jon

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Darren Worley <darren at worley.org.au> wrote:

>  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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