Can't see ATA drives with new install

[jlc415 at gmail.com]

It's an Intel DG965WH; Core 2 Duo CPU.

On 3/17/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> jlc415 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as well as
> > SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I can't
> > modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where
> > I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD.
> >
> > I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have the
> > right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the
> > drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's what I
> > used to install onto the SATA drive.
> >
> > The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see either
> > of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA
> > drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no other
> > hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything
> > related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm looking
> > for.
> >
> > I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the
> > right drivers, so added
> >
> > device atapicam
> > device scbus
> > device cd
> > device pass
> >
> > to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive.
> >
> > What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on
> > dealing with ATA devices somewhere?
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > -mike
>
> Mike,
>         What's your motherboard maker?
> -Garrett
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