Third IDE hard disk

[anubis]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 8:26 am, Mark wrote:
> I installed my new FreeBSD 4.9R on my new ASUS KV8 Deluxe board.
> Everything work fine... except, FreeBSD cannot find the third
> harddisk! (the third IDE, as master on the third IDE port).
>
> How do I enable it? Or make FreeBSD see it? (please, please, let me
> not have to recompile the kernel).
>
> Thank you,
>
> - Mark
>
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I did some reading and found this.

The third ata channel has to be turned on in the bios and configured 
to be raid or ata.  Did you do this?

It has a Promise R20378 controller on it on raid mode and may not be 
bsd compatible.