Can't see ATA drives with new install

[Garrett Cooper]

jlc415 at gmail.com wrote:
> My kernel config already includes all that.
> 
> Just installed OpenBSD, and the other drives work just fine. I guess
> that's my OS.
> 
> Quite disappointing that FreeBSD is actually behind in terms of
> hardware support, particularly for a relatively popular motherboard.
> 
> On 3/18/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> jlc415 at gmail.com wrote:
>> > It's an Intel DG965WH; Core 2 Duo CPU.
>> >
>> > On 3/17/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> >> jlc415 at gmail.com wrote:
>> >> > I've just installed 6.2/amd64 on a system with standard IDE as 
>> well as
>> >> > SATA; I've got three drives: an old linux IDE hard drive (that I 
>> can't
>> >> > modify), a CD/DVD drive on the IDE bus, and a new SATA drive where
>> >> > I've just installed/am installing FreeBSD.
>> >> >
>> >> > I can boot from any of the drives: the linux install doesn't have 
>> the
>> >> > right drivers so it's not usable, but the MB definitely sees the
>> >> > drive. I can boot from the FreeBSD boot CD, as well, and that's 
>> what I
>> >> > used to install onto the SATA drive.
>> >> >
>> >> > The trouble is that when I boot from the SATA drive I can't see 
>> either
>> >> > of the other two drives. /dev contains the entries for the main SATA
>> >> > drive, but nothing for anything else: no /dev/acd or /dev/cd; no 
>> other
>> >> > hard drives; nothing. Looked through dmesg but didn't see anything
>> >> > related to the cd drive, although I really don't know what I'm 
>> looking
>> >> > for.
>> >> >
>> >> > I wondered whether the stock kernel maybe just didn't include the
>> >> > right drivers, so added
>> >> >
>> >> > device atapicam
>> >> > device scbus
>> >> > device cd
>> >> > device pass
>> >> >
>> >> > to GENERIC, but I still can't see the dvd drive.
>> >> >
>> >> > What should I be looking for? Is there more robust documentation on
>> >> > dealing with ATA devices somewhere?
>> >> >
>> >> > Any help much appreciated.
>> >> >
>> >> > -mike
>> >>
>> >> Mike,
>> >>         What's your motherboard maker?
>> >> -Garrett
>>
>> Your motherboard (and most importantly the chipset it uses) are recent,
>> so 6.2 might not have hardware support quite yet.. 7-CURRENT might be
>> your next best bet if the following doesn't work.
>>
>> Here's what I have for my kernel config though for the device drivers
>> section, related to PATA/CD/DVD stuff:
>>
>> # ATA and ATAPI devices
>> device          ata
>> device          atadisk         # ATA disk drives
>> device          ataraid         # ATA RAID drives
>> device          atapicd         # ATAPI CDROM drives
>> device          atapifd         # ATAPI floppy drives
>> device          atapicam
>> options         ATA_STATIC_ID   # Static device numbering
>>
>> # SCSI peripherals
>> device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
>> device          ch              # SCSI media changers
>> device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
>> device          cd              # CD
>> device          pass            # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Garrett

Well, unfortunately that's the price you pay when you run something 
stable. I'm pretty sure 7-CURRENT runs it without any problems.

As a sidenote, sometimes backporting through versions isn't really possible.

-Garrett