Hello, there was some discussion one year ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-January/015180.html
I'm not seeing exactly the same problem, no "timeout" message, but with ahci.ko loaded, no disk gets recognized. Staying with ataahci it works fine. System is 8.2-RC3-amd64. Here's some info about the SATA chip: atapci0@pci0:0:17:0: class=0x010601 card=0x1609103c chip=0x43911002 rev=0x40 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.' device = 'SB700 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]' class = mass storage subclass = SATA bar [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd000, size 8, enabled bar [14] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xc000, size 4, enabled bar [18] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xb000, size 8, enabled bar [1c] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xa000, size 4, enabled bar [20] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0x9000, size 16, enabled bar [24] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xfdfffc00, size 1024, enabled cap 05[50] = MSI supports 4 messages, 64 bit cap 12[70] = SATA Index-Data Pair cap 13[a4] = PCI Advanced Features: FLR TP Disabling MSI doesn't change anything. Thanks for any help, -Harry
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