Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:03:48 +0200 From: Michael Ross <michael.ross@gmx.net> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New PATA Drive Message-ID: <20081014010348.8ba4b58d.michael.ross@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <147753C4-C47B-4FCE-8BF4-1337CDB9C543@lafn.org> References: <F389000E-DE55-4297-BD02-0F9EFFC8A9B2@lafn.org> <20081013210348.GA76138@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <147753C4-C47B-4FCE-8BF4-1337CDB9C543@lafn.org>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700 Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > > 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. > >> Drive: Seagate ST3160815A Did you try setting the Capacity Limitation Jumper on the drive? Worked for me once when installing a contemporary HD into an old machine yielded a stop while the BIOS tried to detect it. Michael
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