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Subject: Re: Another case of the vanishing disk
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, cruxpot wrote:

> I was referring to enabling AHCI in the BIOS. Right now the disks are
> in some kind of PATA or mixed mode and I do not have ahci_enable
> enabled in the rc.conf. I don't know if turning that on will help or
> not but it's something I could try.

It's part of the GENERIC kernel.  Enabling it in the BIOS should be 
enough.