Can't see ATA drives with new install

[jlc415 at gmail.com]

My kernel config already includes all that.

Just installed OpenBSD, and the other drives work just fine. I guess
that's my OS.

Quite disappointing that FreeBSD is actually behind in terms of
hardware support, particularly for a relatively popular motherboard.

On 3/18/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> jlc415 at gmail.com wrote:
> > 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
>
> Your motherboard (and most importantly the chipset it uses) are recent,
> so 6.2 might not have hardware support quite yet.. 7-CURRENT might be
> your next best bet if the following doesn't work.
>
> Here's what I have for my kernel config though for the device drivers
> section, related to PATA/CD/DVD stuff:
>
> # ATA and ATAPI devices
> device          ata
> device          atadisk         # ATA disk drives
> device          ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
> device          atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
> device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
> device          atapicam
> options         ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering
>
> # SCSI peripherals
> device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
> device          ch              # SCSI media changers
> device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
> device          cd              # CD
> device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
>
> Cheers,
> -Garrett
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