Onboard SATA Controller of Intel DH55HC Motherboard (FreeBSD 7.3 & FreeBSD 8.1)

[Bahman Kahinpour]

Hello FreeBSD people all over the world,

There is an onboard Intel SATA controller on Intel DH55HC motherboard.
I have tried FreeBSD version 7.3 and 8.1 on this motherboard, it
recognizes the SATA controller but recognizes the hard disk as IDE
devices. How can this happen?

$ uname -a
FreeBSD mail.freebsdsystem.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Sun
Jan 23 19:28:28 IRST 2011
root at mail.freebsdsystem.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
$ dmesg | grep SATA
atapci1: <Intel PCH SATA300 controller> port
0xf090-0xf097,0xf080-0xf083,0xf070-0xf077,0xf060-0xf063,0xf020-0xf03f
mem 0xfe725000-0xfe7257ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
ad8: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01> at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s
ad10: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01> at ata5-master UDMA100
SATA 3Gb/s
ad12: 476940MB <WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 01.00A01> at ata6-master UDMA100
SATA 3Gb/s
acd0: DVDR <SONY DVD RW DRU-870S/1.61> at ata7-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s
$

I did everything to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from recognizing the
hard drives as IDE. I turned off all IDE emulation options in the
BIOS.

How can I fix that?

Thanks
Bahman Kahinpour