FreeBSD 7 SATA Weirdness
Over the weekend I installed the x86-64 build of FreeBSD 7 on my
workstation, dib. I haven't had time yet to configure everything to my
liking yet, but almost everything works.
The one really annoying issue centers around a SATA DVD burner. When
this device is attached to the primary SATA controller (ICH7), the
system refuses to boot from the hard drive. It reports that no system
disk has been found. I've tried all of the SATA settings options in the
BIOS and none work.
If I connect the SATA burner to the secondary Marvell "RAID" controller
the system boots from the hard drive without issue. In Windows, this
requires another driver (which for some reason installed a copy of
apache along with it). Under FreeBSD 7; however, this second controller
seems to be currently unsupported, leaving me with only the IDE burner
available.
I may spend the $20 and get another IDE burner and just forget about the
SATA issue, but I really would like to know what the problem is. If any
one has any idea why the system would fail to boot from a SATA hard
drive when a SATA optical drive is attached, please email me and give me
some insight into this issue.
Maybe the Unix category wasn't the best for this. I spent more time
discussing the hardware/BIOS weirdness than the installation or
configuration of FreeBSD7. In fact, FreeBSD 7 isn't a very good title
for this either. I'm going to change that.
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