New ATA issue: locked out

[Xin LI]

David Xu wrote:
> 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).

Have you tried non-AHCI mode?  Mine is glabel/newfs -L'ed so everything 
just work after the change, but if you are using different configuration 
then some fstab/others tweak would be necessary...

Cheers,
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