New ATA issue: locked out

[Xin LI]

Diego Depaoli wrote:
> Trying to mount / fails with no mountroot and a wide geom's list.
> Booting previous kernel results in panic guessing Bios (or some similar).
> Kernel from two hours ago.

I found that latest ATA driver has some problems with ICH8M's AHCI mode, 
but switching to compatible mode seems to be a good workaround.  Is your 
hard drive probed by the kernel?  Also, can you try old kernel to see if 
it work?

Cheers,
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