Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Mon May 30 22:21:01 PDT 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Svein Halvor
>Halvorsen
>Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 5:30 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: questions at freebsd.org; Ulf Magnusson; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: Seagate HD not detected by FreeBSD
>
>
>You are right, it's not a UDMA standard per se! And I was wrong to say 
>that there was *nothing* wrong with that setup. However, it was not 
>*entirely* wrong, either (allthough a peculiar setup). It's 
>just that it's 
>always worked for me, but it seems I was lucky.
>

PIO mode on the bus is a lot more tolerant.  And in the olden days
the IDE standard was more of a convention and less of a standard.

>
>Btw, do you have any pointers to that standard?

http://www.t13.org/

>And also; could you try to fix your line lenght problem?
>

Sorry!

Ted


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