laptop won't boot past 2.1x

[Kris Maglione]

I have a laptop that I originally installed 5.2.1 on. When 5.3 came out, 
I installed it immediately, only to find that the boot hung at detecting 
my ATA cd-rw/dvd drive. Verbose mode stops at:
GEOM: Configure ad0s1 start ... length ... end ...
GEOM: Configure ad0s2[a-f] start ... length ... end ...

(Sorry, there's no serial port on the laptop. I can type it out by hand 
if need be, though.)

With the latest stable and atapicam/pass/cd built in, it ends with lines 
similar to:
(probe[0-5]:...) error 22
(probe[0-5]:...) Unretryable error

Otherwise, it ends with the same GEOM: Configure lines

I have tried the latest HEAD as a FreesBIE disk and have gotten the same 
results. A FreesBIE -CURRENT from around the time of the 5.2.1 release 
works, initializing pass0 right after the error22 lines.

Any suggestions on the problem or how to clarify it?
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