It is worth trying a snapshot instead of 5.7. You should be able to mount a usb disk from an installer shell which would let you save the output of dmesg or just do an install to a usb disk.
I would guess the "IDE SATA Emulation" would mean pciide(4). On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:53:14AM -0700, Danny Nguyen wrote: > I took some pictures of the hardware to assist in seeing what is going > on more clearly. > > Based on the writing on the hardware, the connections from the hard drive > connectors (from input to motherboard) are SATA. > > The pictures with the hard drives are to show all the different connectors. > The screw driver was used as a point of reference. > > I inserted the following hard drives when booting into the bios: seagate > 500g and hitachi 2tb. I then proceeded to chose the optical drive to boot > into the openbsd installation process using the install57.iso image. Same > error which did not detect the hard drives and no link on the ethernet as > mentioned before. > > I attempted to change the raid to ahci like suggested and something weird > that said "emulated" showed up in the storage options. The last two images > show what I mean.
