DVD drive not detected on GA-G33-DS3R

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Nathan Butcher wrote:
> I picked up a Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R with the intent on running ZFS on
> it. The GA-G33-DS3R has 8 internal SATA ports of which 6 are provided
> by the Intel Southbridge ICH9 chipset and the other 2 are provided by
> the 'Gigabyte SATAII' chipset, which in reality is a JMicron JMB363,
> a supposedly very well supported chip, and FreeBSD detects it as
> such.
>
> I have a standard SATA DVD combo drive, but regardless of what mode
> (IDE, RAID, AHCI) I put the "Gigabyte SATAII chipset" in, FreeBSD
> won't detect it as /dev/acd0. Strange, because I can boot up the
> snapshot CD and get as far as selecting media from which to install
> FreeBSD -- except to be told that no CD drive is found.

I have the same issue with the JMicron part.. Interestingly it works in 
6.2 but not -current so there is a regression.

I asked sos@ about it and he said he'd try and look into it but I guess 
he's been to busy with Real Life (tm) :)

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