Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:16:51 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New IBM drive setting problem? Message-ID: <20020124171651.GC1213@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <3C501806.F9DE2049@mitre.org> References: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEIMCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <3C501806.F9DE2049@mitre.org>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:19:50AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote: > Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > > Here is my advice, since you have only one device per motherboard > > ide controller this config should work, this means you have some > > thing incorrect with the hardware. Open up the box and check out > > that the components are plugged in the correct sockets on the > > motherboard, that you are not using a 33 wire ribbon to the hard > > drive, get the mfg and model number off the id plate of the HD and > > look it up on the mfg web page to verify it's 100, there is a visual > > difference in ide ribbons, 33 has bigger wires and 66 has smaller > > wires and 66 of them. I do not know about 100 but it may also have a > > special ribbon. Check with motherboard manufacture web page for a bios, > > flash update and verify that you motherboard model does support ATA/100. > > > > It's time you play detective. > > Sorry, I thought I'd mentioned all of this in the original email: > > The hard drive is an IBM 60GXP 40GB HD (as the probed model number > indicates). It supports up to ATA100. I have one of these disks, it runs FreesBSD/ATA100 without any problems. So I doubt it's the disk. > The cable is an ATA100 compliant (80 conductor) cable. > Hmm. There appears to be a new BIOS on the website, but it only claims > to fix problems with the Athlon XP 2000+. I'll try installing it anyway > to see if that makes a difference. > The Motherboard is a SolTek SL-75DRV2 which according to the webpage > "Supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33". What seems really strange to me is how > the DVD-ROM comes up as ATA66 (that's the maximum it can support) while > the Hard Drive comes up ATA33. > > I'm really stumped on this myself. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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