freebsd stable - Sep 2006 - Showstopper - 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives (fwd)

I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response.

I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall 
could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install.  I had to mount the CD 
in another machine and do a NFS install.

--
Frank

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Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank <frank_s@bellsouth.net>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: 6.2-PRERELEASE does not see SATA DVD drives

I have a Dell XPS 700 Pentium D 3.6 Dual Core with 2 gigs RAM, 2 250 GB SATA 
drives, a TSST Corp TS-H553A DVD burner and a Phillips DROM 6316 DVD-ROM.

The system sees the hard drives but not the DVD drives.  I have device atapicam 
compiled in the kernel.

What can I do to enable the drives?

On an unrelated note, the box also has a Creative X-Fi sound card that no 
driver will attach to.  Is this card supported?

--
Frank
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Frank wrote:
> I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response.
>
> I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but 
> sysinstall could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install.  I had to 
> mount the CD in another machine and do a NFS install.
SATA optical drives are not supported, neither is your brand new gaming 
sound card. This is far from being a show stopper. Please consult the 
hardware notes in the future before complaining on the lists.

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>> I am sending this again since it has been 4 days with no response.
>> 
>> I consider this a showstopper since I could boot from CD but sysinstall
>> could not see the DVD drives, thus no CD install.  I had to mount the
CD in
>> another machine and do a NFS install.
>
> SATA optical drives are not supported, neither is your brand new gaming
sound
> card. This is far from being a show stopper. Please consult the hardware 
> notes in the future before complaining on the lists.
The Hardware Notes do not mention SATA at all except for RAID controllers. 
I figured if the SATA hard drives are supported the DVD drives would be 
also since the notes did not say that they were not.

Is there a timeframe for SATA CD and DVD support?
--
Frank