Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:51:33 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New PATA Drive Message-ID: <E03B855B-1F36-4D8E-9041-B3536EA44D08@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20081014010348.8ba4b58d.michael.ross@gmx.net> References: <F389000E-DE55-4297-BD02-0F9EFFC8A9B2@lafn.org> <20081013210348.GA76138@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <147753C4-C47B-4FCE-8BF4-1337CDB9C543@lafn.org> <20081014010348.8ba4b58d.michael.ross@gmx.net>
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On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:03, Michael Ross wrote: > 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. Wow. I never saw that jumper option before. That did it. The drive does properly drop down to ATA/33 and now is visible in FreeBSD. Its only 32 GB though. However, thats more than enough for now. Thanks.
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