From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 13 20:56:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BE51065691 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [206.117.18.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495598FC12 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.194] (pool-71-109-162-173.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.109.162.173]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9DKufuK095161 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Message-Id: From: Doug Hardie To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:56:40 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.92.1, clamav-milter version 0.92.1 on zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: New PATA Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:56:42 -0000 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.