[Soekris] SATA failures on 2 x net5501-70 units

[Patrick Lamaizière]

Le Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:38:10 +0100,
Martin Johnson <martin.johnson.uk.lists at googlemail.com> a écrit :

> - When the SATA drives are detected by combios, why doesn't the  
> FreeBSD 7.0p2 installer see them?  Do I need to add something to the  
> GENERIC kernel?

No, it should work out of the box. I've installed a 7.0 release and now
i run 7-STABLE.

Well, I don't have any problem on my net5501 with a WDC WD2500BEVS disk.
ComBios 1.33

> - Are PATA/IDE drives more reliable than SATA drives on the net5501?

The SATA is done by a chipset behind the ATA controller (the CS5536
companion chipset), so this is not a real SATA. I mean the OS only see
the ATA controller.

> Thanks for any pointers!
> 
> - Martin.
> 
> 
> ----------------
> Config. Info:-
> ----------------
> 	SATA drives used: 1 x Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 160GB, 1 x
> Samsung HM160JI 160GB.  (one drive on each net5501.)
> 	Cards used: none (no CF, no PCI, no miniPCI).
> 	PSU used: 12 volt 5 amp Mascot unit.
> 	Combios settings:
>          	ConSpeed = 9600
>         	 	ConLock = Enabled
>          	ConMute = Disabled
>          	BIOSentry = Enabled
>          	PCIROMS = Enabled
>          	PXEBoot = Enabled
>          	FLASH = Secondary
>          	BootDelay = 5
>          	FastBoot = Disabled
>          	BootPartition = Disabled
>          	BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF
>          	ShowPCI = Enabled
>          	Reset = Hard
>          	CpuSpeed = Default

Same here.