New ATA issue: locked out

[David Xu]

Xin LI wrote:
> 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,

mine is Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7).