Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:56:40 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: New PATA Drive Message-ID: <F389000E-DE55-4297-BD02-0F9EFFC8A9B2@lafn.org>
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I am encountering an issue with a new 160 GB PATA drive. Its being installed on an old system (Pentium II). The boot process never really starts. It gets in the BIOS to where it checks for drives and hangs with the message searching for the primary drive on the channel. Normally I have that disabled because the boot drive is SCSI but in that situation it just hangs and there are no messages. This drive is the only device on the channel and it is jumpered for Master. I am suspecting that the issue is the drive ATA/100 is not falling back to ATA/66/33 such that the motherboard can properly detect it. Seagate does provide a utility to reset the drive back down from ATA/ 100 but it requires that the boot get through to run the utility. The drive works fine in a Mac but the utility won't run there. I can continue to search for hardware that can boot with the drive attached to run the utility or am I chasing my tail here? Drive: Seagate ST3160815A Motherboard: ASUS P2L97 - Manual says ATA/33 only.
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