FreeBSD 8.3-R sysinstall does not "see" disks that are recognized during boot

[Andy Dills]

I've got a new supermicro server I'm trying to get FreeBSD on. It uses the 
Intel c602 chipset, and it's my understanding that support for that 
chipset (c60X) was recently added via the isci driver. Ok, great, that 
explains why 8.2-R and 9.0-R didn't see the drives.

So, I grabbed the memstick image of 8.3-RELEASE that is on the ftp server, 
booted it up, and sure enough, as the dmesg scrolls I see it now properly 
recognizes da0 and da1, as it should (the memstick is da2). It sees the 
disks fine at this point, everything looks good.

However, once the system finishes booting and loads into sysinstall, and I 
go to partition the drives, I get "No disks found! Please verify that your 
disk controller is being properly loaded at boot time".

Any suggestions for avenues to troubleshoot this?  I have pictures to 
document if it helps.

Seems very odd. I confirmed the behavior with the SATA set to IDE, AHCI, 
and RAID modes. (The drives were recognized as da0 and da1 during bootup 
in all three modes, but not by sysinstall.)

Thanks,
Andy

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Andy Dills
Xecunet, Inc.
www.xecu.net
301-682-9972
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