Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New PATA Drive Message-ID: <147753C4-C47B-4FCE-8BF4-1337CDB9C543@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20081013210348.GA76138@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <F389000E-DE55-4297-BD02-0F9EFFC8A9B2@lafn.org> <20081013210348.GA76138@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Oct 13, 2008, at 14:03, David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: >> 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. > > I have had exactly that sort of problem with a 160G Seagate drive on > old > hardware. And even if it did work it would have only recognized 128G > due > to hardware or BIOS limitations. I could live with that. The drive its replacing is only 60 GB and its less than 10% used. > > > In the end I swapped an old HD out of another machine that was happy > with the new drive. > > A CPU and motherboard that does recognize your ATA100 drive costs less > than the HD. Perhaps its time to upgrade the MB? Unfortunately the disk was free. MBs are not. I would love to replace the entire system for a number of reasons, but the money just isn't there for that. I'll keep chasing my tail.
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