Getting FreeBSD to see my dvd drive

[Mark Carlson]

On 7/26/07, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:07 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote:
> > I've reposted this from freebsd-questions, and added some minor details.
> >
> > Yesterday I bought and installed a Lite-ON SATA DVD Writer for my
> > computer.  But FreeBSD fails to recognize it at all.
> > <snip>
>
> Hi Joshua.
>
> FreeBSD doesn't support SATA ATAPI devices iirc.
>
> Sorry
>
>

That's funny, I was able to install 6.2-release (both 32-bit and
64-bit) just fine from my SATA DVD drive a few weeks ago (LG Super
Multi DVD Writer 18x18x10 DVD +/-RW Dual-Layer Lightscribe.)

I had no idea FreeBSD didn't support it until I read this email.  I
have since upgraded to 7.0-CURRENT (32-bit):
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jul 14 21:22:14 MDT 2007

Now, from my dmesg (sorry, didn't keep one from 6.2...):
ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1
ata5: SATA ATAPI devices not supported yet
ata5: [ITHREAD]

I know my BIOS setup is not the same now as it was when I did the
initial install, but AFAIK, the only difference is that I had to
disable the onboard RAID controller to install to the RAID array then
re-enable it to boot off of the array (funny, I know, but it was the
only way the BIOS would let me boot off of the SATA DVD drive at all!)

-Mark Carlson

For posterity, the mobo was a S3000AHLX, which works OK, it'll be
nicer when I can get the SMBUS controller working... if I can, that
is.