ata devices on emulated amd64 on qemu

[Mars G. Miro]

Yo list!

 Under qemu, I seem to have a problem with teh amd64 emulator
detecting emulated ata devices. This is my setup:

 Host: FreeBSD5.4/amd64

 Guest: FreeBSD5.4/i386 --> works like a charm. I can emulate
FreeBSD/i386 as well as (limited) networking (via -user-net), though
there's a performance hit (of course).
 ata devices:
 ad0: 500MB <QEMU HARDDISK/0.7.0> [1015/16/63] at ata0-master PIO2
 acd0: CDROM <QEMU CD-ROM/0.7.0> at ata1-master PIO3
 qemu was invoked by doing a:
% qemu -hda test -cdrom /path/to/5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso -pci
-user-net -std-vga -boot d
 
 Guest: FreeBSD5.4/amd64-> can boot only up to sysinstall menu, but
cannot detect emulated ata devices (qemu hd image as well as the cdrom
are nowehere to be found)
 qemu was invoked by doing a:
 % qemu-system-x86_64 -hda test -cdrom
/path/to/5.4-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso -pci -user-net -std-vga -boot d
  
 qemu image was created by doing a: 
 % qemu-img create test 500M
  
 qemu was built from the ports and is most recent (at the time of this writing).

 So has anyone else seen this?

 Thanks.


cheers
mars