I have a net5501-70 which is running FreeBSD 8.3. It's got one internal
SATA HD from which it boots, and also has a couple of external drives
connected via a USB hub. No expansions cards are installed.
I attempted to update it to 9.1-RELEASE following the instructions here:
These lines are absent from the 9.1 boot:
ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable
ad1: 305245MB WDC WD3200BEVT-00ZCT0 11.01A11 at ata0-slave UDMA33
So something about 9.1 is not finding the disk at the driver level. But
since the bootloader read the kernel from the disk,