Serial ATA 4.8 Installation -help

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems florian mettetal wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have built a brand new system founded on an Asus P4PE motherboard, and
> using the FastTrack raid function I have turned my two Maxtor 80GB
> Serial ATA (now reffered to as SATA) hard drives into a Mirror raid.
> 
> Proceeding to start the installation of FreeBSD 4.8-stable I selected
> Standard Install, Press ok at the pop up, then at the following popup I
> am confronted with FreeBSD telling me that "No disks found! Please
> verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at boot time".
> Has anyone else had this issue? Is this problem fixed in FreeBSD 5.X .
> What can I do to get this to work in FreeBSD 4.8? 

4.x doesn't support the Promise SATA controllers, you need at least 5.1
for that. The -current ATA driver might be backported later this year,
nothing definite yet.

-Søren