SATA and PATA drives are mutually exclusive

[Astrodog]

On 10/3/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > > On my machine (P35 ICH9 some sort of AMI bios [OEM version number
> > > makes no sense]) the BIOS will see both SATA/300 and PATA (UDMA 133)
> > > drives installed at the same time but FreeBSD 7-Current (AMD64) only
> > > sees the SATA drive.   Sorry I do not have more data because FreeBSD
> > > makes no mention what ever of the PATA drive.  Hardware details:
> > >
> > > MSI Neo-F Mobo (ICH9, AMI BIOS, 7 SATA and 1 PATA connectors)
> > > 4 GB RAM
> > > E6850 CPU (compiled as HAMMER not NOCONA in kernel)
> > > 500 GB SATA Drive
> > > 250 GB PATA Drive (I want to install upto 2)
> >

I have seen a large number of motherboards that will drop either the
secondary, or primary IDE drives when SATA is enabled. Does FreeBSD
detect the PATA drives when they are installed on their own? (No SATA
drives)