Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
This is why I ask: I see a Western Digital hard disk which shows up as ad0 on that system. It's claiming ATA100 mode, but there are features of the ICH7 (often called "Compatibility Mode" in BIOSes) which allow a SATA device to appear as a PATA device to work with older operating systems such as MS-DOS.
ad0 is a PATA disk and it attached to PATA channel.
The full output from a verbose boot can be found here: http://pastebin.ca/1227417 ; The relevant (I think) section starts at
Did you try change SATA/IDE-related options in BIOS? -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"