My Seagate Baraccuda doesnt PROBE on version 5.x

[Graham Menhennitt]

James wrote:

>I was using version 4.x of freeBSD and it works fine. In a
>following days, I decide to change on version 5.4. During on
>booting process and detecting hardwares, in a bit of portion my
>two (2) Seagate 40G Baraccuda ( Primary Master and Secondary
>Master) was not been successfully detected and I dont know why.
>This what display on the screen.
>
>For 5.x Version
>-------
>ata0-slave: FAILURE - ATAP_IDENTIFY timed out
>ata0-slave: FAILURE - ATAP_IDENTIFY timed out
>  
>

James,

Have a look at PR kern/79332 
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/79332>. I don't get 
exactly the same messages as you do but it looks fairly similar. Try 
building a custom kernel with one of the patches from there and see if 
it fixes your problem.
Cheers,
    Graham