Adding another hard drive

[Rich Demanowski]

John Nielsen wrote:
> 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
Oddly enough, the answer is even more simplistic than that ... I simply 
tried plugging it into a different open SATA connector on the 
motherboard.  If I plug it into number 2 (number 1 is connected to the 
original SATA hard drive that came with the system, a 120GB Seagate), it 
locks the system up like I described earlier.  If I plug it into number 
3 ... everything works fine.

Curious.