Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 07:34:34 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020702073434.01280710@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c2217f$a53fcbe0$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> References: <20020702035502.GA18522@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>
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At 09:19 PM 7.1.2002 -0700, Lucky Green wrote: >[Folks that submitted suggestions are bcc'ed] > >Below is additional information that has been requested: > >Neither setting the drive in the BIOS to "AUTO", nor "LBA", nor "LARGE" >makes any difference. > >The BIOS sees 1027 cylinders, 225 heads, 63 sectors, which is exactly >what fdisk is seeing. > >With all of the above cases, the settings for cylinders, heads, etc. >remain grayed out. I am unable to change any of those settings. > >The motherboard has 4 IDE connectors: primary and secondary IDE and two >Promise RAID IDE connectors. The HD is connected to the primary IDE >connector via an UDMA 100 cable. The drive is only IDE device on the >system. > >When the drive is jumpered as MASTER, the BIOS fails to detect the >drive. The BIOS will detected the drive when the drive is without >jumpers. The drive has no jumpers that would allow me to reduce the >size. (Nobody would buy a 120GB drive just so they can jumper it down to >8.4GB :) > >One potential hint might be that right after POST, the MBfast Track >(Promise Technologies) RAID manager starts up. It goes through a drive >seek phase, when it can't find any RAID drives, I have to hit Escape out >of the RAID manager. If there is a way to disable the RAID manager, >preventing it from trying to find drives in the first place, I have yet >to figure it out and it is not mentioned in the motherboard manual. > >Thanks, >--Lucky > Sounds like you have the RAID jumper on the mother board enabled if it is loading the RAID manager. This may be at least part of the problem. You need to locat the jumper and disable RAID if not using it. The manual should have a layout with jumpers shown.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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