Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:09:35 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: btillman99@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive Message-ID: <4f06e47f.QF6Gxpsj/Dl6yEXA%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <4F0517BA.1050405@mykitchentable.net> <1325819792.82542.YahooMailNeo@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote: > ... no matter which computer I chose, and no matter how I setup > the Slave/Master drive, as long as this drive which I had > installed FreeBSD-9.0-amd64 was in the loop, the computer would > lockup at the bios screen. I could not get anything to boot if > this drive was in the loop. If you have an oldish machine with a spare PCI slot, you could try plugging in a PCI-IDE controller card and connect the drive to that. Many of the older BIOS won't look for drives on add-in controllers.
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