Help: Asus P5WD2 mobo and ITE IDE controller problem

From: Murray Taylor (MTaylor_at_bytecraft.com.au)
Date: 11/14/05

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    Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:13:51 +1100
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    Hi all,

    I have had a system configured using this mobo and have hit a
    showstopper.

    The HDD (a seagate 330GB IDE) have been connected to the ITE IDE
    controller
    while the DVDrom has been connected to the primary IDE controller.

    It seems that the ITE device is a RAID controller, and the BIOS and
    the 5.4 FreeBSD installer dont see the HDD at all. Which is not very
    useful!

    The mobo has a SATA port as well, and the question is

    Does 5.4 support SATA drives for install?

    I think I can tell the BIOS to make a SATA drive 'look like' an IDE
    drive.

    (sent to hackers also for this followup question)
    As a followup - Does anyone know of any support re the ITE device?

    CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775
    M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B
    Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533
    HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB
    Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO
    FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black
    Tape Certance DDS5 Tape Drive
    SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
    PSU 600Watt 

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