On Friday 01 December 2006 20:56, you wrote:
> I can provide dmesg from freebsd i386 which is what I have been able
> to install so far. The Freebsd amd64 installer has other issues which
> prevent it from booting at all.

> atapci1: <Intel 63XXESB2 SATA300 controller> port
> 0x20e0-0x20e7,0x20f8-0x20fb,0x20e8-0x20ef,0x20fc-0x20ff,0x2080-0x209f
> mem 0xd0404400-0xd04047ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
> atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 6 ports detected
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
> ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1
> ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1
> ata6: <ATA channel 4> on atapci1
> ata7: <ATA channel 5> on atapci1

You are lucky, Manuel Bouyer committed the ahcisata(4) driver that you need
in your system. You'll have to use -current from today to use a kernel
with the ahcisata(4) driver built in.

Good luck.