On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:03, Michael Ross wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700
Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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