After 6.0-RELEASE, still cannot find ATA disk com VIA8235

[Andrew P.]

On 11/10/05, João Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny at jonny.eng.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      After 5.4-RELEASE I did try to install FreeBSD on a spare desktop at work,
> but it failed to boot, with a kernel trap 12 and ATA_IDENTIFY time out.
>
>      Knowning that 6.0 has a completely new ata driver, I did it again.  Now the
> system boots, and shows absolutely no error message.  But also could not
> identify neither the Samsung Hard disk, nor the CDROM on the VIA8235 ata interface.
>
>      This same machine is running Fedora Core 3 and Windows XP SP2 perfectly.
> Indeedm this email is comming out from it, over Windows XP.
>
>      The motherboard is an ASUS P4VP-MX, with a 2.0GHz P4 CPU, and 1G RAM.  The
> harddisk is a Samsung SP0411N, on primary master, and the CDROM is an LG
> GCR-8523B, on secondary slave.  I also did try with a DVD-writer on secondary
> master, with no success.
>
>      Any ideas?
>
>      TIA,
>
>                 Jonny
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Please, do some research (googling) before asking
such questions, as they usually require much more
info.

Your motherboard has VIA P4M266A chipset, carrying
VT8233A on board. Ata(4) driver is not completely new
in 6.0, and it has supported this very IDE controller for
some time already. Please consult your motherboard's
manual (I can't download it as all Asus sites behave very
badly) and disable all non-standard options, you can try
some thing like "Load safe defaults" or "Load optimized
defaults".

BTW, this question belongs to questions@, so cc there.