Re: hardware compatibility - Nvidia SATA controller

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

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