freebsd problem: Cannot detect Hard Disk (SATA)

[David Scheidt]

yoke an wrote:
> 

>   I'm running on SATA mode. Supposingly I will need to configure my
>   Driver on "The Kernel Device Configuration Visual Interface". Not sure
>   the setting for SATA mode and whether 4.8 is supported?

SATA is not supported on 4.x.  Unless you write support, it's going to 
stay that way.  You either need to use ATA (or SCSI) disks or upgrade to 
5.3.

Regards.

David