Hi,
Perhaps it's unrelated to your problem, but you could try forcing your
SATA controller into AHCI mode.. maybe you'll see your drive then.
-Bryan.
Index: dev/pci/ahci.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/ahci.c,v
retrieving revision 1.158
diff -N -u dev/pci/ahci.c
--- dev/pci/ahci.c 21 Jan 2010 10:16:44 -0000 1.158
+++ dev/pci/ahci.c 29 Jan 2010 19:11:12 -0000
@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@
{ PCI_VENDOR_INTEL, PCI_PRODUCT_INTEL_82801H_RAID,
NULL, NULL },
+ { PCI_VENDOR_INTEL, PCI_PRODUCT_INTEL_82801HBM_SATA,
+ NULL, NULL },
{ PCI_VENDOR_NVIDIA, PCI_PRODUCT_NVIDIA_MCP65_AHCI_2,
NULL, ahci_nvidia_mcp_attach },