FreeBSD Serial ATA hard drives support

[jason henson]

DMVN wrote:
> I ask this question via e-mail just because I hadn't found such
> information in the HandBook.
> 
> Q: Does the FreeBSD 5.4 support SerialATA hard drives?
> I tried to install previous version (5.3) on the machine
> with 160GB Seagate Barracuda (8mb cache) drive (ST3160023AS).
> It said something like "no hard drive found".
> 
> Where is the problem? As far as I know, Seagate don't provide
> drivers for *nix systems. What I should do?
> 
> // excuse for poor english.
> 
> mailto:dmvn at mccme.ru
> 
> 
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I installed 5.3 or 5.4 (RC?) at the end of last year on a via amd64 
chipset using SATA150 for both the hardrive and cdrom.