New PATA Drive

[Doug Hardie]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:03, Michael Ross wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0700
> Doug Hardie <bc979 at 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.