amd64/125002: [install] amd64, SATA hard disks not detected

[Joseph Olatt]

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From: Joseph Olatt <joji at eskimo.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, goodbitster at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/125002: [install] amd64, SATA hard disks not detected
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:18:31 -0700

 Hello,
 
 I have also encountered the same problem. The system is:
 
 Acer Aspire AM1640-U1401A
 
 I have tried to install the following versions of FreeBSD and the
 installer said that it could not find the SATA disk.
 
  - FreeBSD 7.0 Release
  - FreeBSD 6.2 Release
  - FreeBSD 6.1 Release
 
 I installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 and here is the SATA information:
 
 /*** Begin transcript  ***/
 [   22.014002] scsi0 : ahci
 [   22.014087] scsi1 : ahci
 [   22.014150] scsi2 : ahci
 [   22.014186] scsi3 : ahci
 [   22.014275] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192 at 0xfea7c000 port
 0xfea7c100 irq 508
 [   22.014278] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192 at 0xfea7c000 port
 0xfea7c180 irq 508
 [   22.014280] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192 at 0xfea7c000 port
 0xfea7c200 irq 508
 [   22.014283] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192 at 0xfea7c000 port
 0xfea7c280 irq 508
 [   22.652562] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
 [   22.653166] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3250410AS, 3.AAF, max UDMA/133
 [   22.653171] ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth
 0/32)
 [   22.653885] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
 /*** End transcript  ***/
 
 
 I was not able to find AHCI in the BIOS to enable.
 
 regards,
 joseph