Getting FreeBSD to see my dvd drive

[Joshua Isom]

On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> 25.07.07, 22:07, Joshua Isom <jrisom at gmail.com>:
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> Can you try the last CURRENT snapshot with your drive?
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> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/
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> I guess the problem is with a SATA controller support...
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> --
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> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>

Well, the problem with the drive not recognizing has been fixed with  
CURRENT.  The inability to boot freebsd still occured with the latest  
snapshot so FreeBSD's not perfect on it.  I may temporarily downgrade  
back to STABLE(and keep a CURRENT in /boot for when I want to use the  
drive even if it means rebooting).  In anycase, here's the relevant  
lines in dmesg.

atapci0: <VIA 6420 SATA150 controller> port  
0xe100-0xe107,0xe700-0xe703,0xe800-0xe807,0xe900-0xe903,0xe000 
-0xe00f,0xd000-0xd0ff irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata3: [ITHREAD]

acd0: DVDR <LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S/9L05> at ata2-master SATA150
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is iso9660/FreeBSD_bootonly.

So now comes the next two questions, any ETA on getting into STABLE and  
how about the loader not crashing?