Adding another hard drive

[John Nielsen]

Quoting Rich Demanowski <richd at RichDPhoto.com>:

> I'm trying to add another hard drive into my system, a 250GB Western 
> Digital 7200RPM SATA drive, and when I have it plugged into the 
> motherboard the system hangs when it gets to:
>    Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1803775604 Hz quality 800
>    Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>    acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-4836K/SPJ2> at ata1-master UDMA33
>    ad4: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120213AS 3.AHH> at ata2-master SATA150

I had a similar problem using a new SATA-II drive with my SATA150 
controller. Once I closed the jumper to force the drive down to SATA150 
operation the problem went away. This isn't necessary on most 
drive/controller combinations (the fallback is supposed to happen 
automatically), but it was for me and sounds like it may be for you. I 
had to do a bit of searching around to confirm the jumper function 
since it's more or less undocumented for my drive (a Seagate).

Good luck,

JN