problem with ide slots

[Efren Bravo]

Hi,  
  
I've downloaded the last weekend 5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso and
5.4-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso.  
  
Several errors raise itself when the installer was running:  
  
ata0-master: Failure - ATA-IDENTIFY timed out    
ata0-master: Failure - ATA-IDENTIFY timed out    
ata0-master: Failure - ATA-IDENTIFY timed out    
atapi ... I don't remember the rest....    
  
My hdd is a Segate ST340014A (40Gb barracuda7200.7) with two partitions
where in the partition one I've WinXP and I would want to install freeBDS
on the second partition but it's not able to find the hdd. My Motherboard
is:   
http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/board.php?name=U8668-D%20v7.x  
  
I think that the problems is in fBSD that it's not able to communicate
itself with IDE slots. In this case what can I do? In the
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org list they told me that I should write you,
that maybe you can help me.  
  
I hope you can give me some suggestion  
Thank you....