hardware compatibility - Nvidia SATA controller

[Nuno Antunes]

On 2/2/07, Jon Nathan <jon at rupture.net> wrote:
* Nuno Antunes <nuno.antunes at gmail.com> [02-02-2007 17:23]:
>
> On 2/2/07, Jon Nathan <jon at 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 at . :-)
>
> 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.