Re: SATA SiS182 during installation only 1 disk



In article <pan.2006.01.21.18.24.51.475431@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeroen Wolff <jwolff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>First of all, i'm a FreeBSD newbie...

>I bought today a ASUS Vintage AE-1 barebone.
>On the mobo the is SATA support via SiS182 chip.
>When i install FreeBSD 6.0 only /dev/ad4 is recognized.
>BIOS sees 2 drives,bootload also disk0 and disk1
>But in my dmesg i seen only /dev/ad4 (sorry to say, but WindowsXP
>saw both)
>Is it a RAID problem? I see ATA PseudoRAID loaded message comming by
>but in the BIOS i have SATA native instead of RAID.

>How can i use the second SATA drive?

Not running 6.x but running secondary IDE controllers on other
machines, the ad0-ad3 are mapped to the onboard controllers, and
the add-in controllers start at ad4.

So your second SATA disk should be ad5. You'll have to make
filesystems upon it.

--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
.



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