Re: hardware compatibility - Nvidia SATA controller

["Nuno Antunes" <nuno.antunes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/2/07, Jon Nathan <jon@rupture.net> wrote:
> * Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes@gmail.com> [02-02-2007 17:23]:
> >
> > On 2/2/07, Jon Nathan <jon@rupture.net> wrote:
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I'm trying to install Dragonfly BSD 1.8 on a Dell XPS 600.  It has an
> > >integrated Nvidia Nforce 4 Intel Edition SATA RAID Controller, but
> > >Dragonfly can't find the hard disk attached to it.
> > >
> > >I looked for hardware compatibility lists, but couldn't find anything
> > >referencing different SATA chipsets and what was supported.  Mailing
> > >list searches seem to indicate that ATAng was not really implemented,
> > >but that was a while ago:
> > >
> > >http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2003-11/msg00043.html
> > >
> > >Any info on this chipset?  Thanks,
> > >
> > >-Jon
> > >
> > Hello Jon,
> >
> > Have you tried NATA?
> >
> > For NATA, add options PCI_MAP_FIXUP to your kernel, comment out the
> > old ata devices, add device nata, device natadisk and device natapicd.
> > Credits due to tgen@. :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nuno
>
> If this isn't in the kernel on the install CD, it's probably not much
> use to me.
>
> You seem to imply that ata and nata are mutually exclusive above.
> Is this the case?  If not, is there a chance that nata could be
> added to the kernel for future releases?
>
> -Jon

Yes, i think NATA is mutually exclusive with ATA and it's not enabled
by default. NATA is supposed to replace old ATA in the future when
more testing is performed.

Nuno.