SATA DVD-RW drive not recognised by FreeBSD

[Josh Carroll]

> I have some trouble with my SATA-DVDRW. It's not recognised in the boot
> process, although I think all kernel settings are correct. A SATA
> harddisk works fine. Is there a general issue with SATA-dvd burners?

At least in 6.x and I assume 6-STABLE (unless support has been MFC'd),
SATA ATAPI devices are not yet supported:

/usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c:            device_printf(ch->dev,
"SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet\n");

Josh