formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip]

[David Larkin]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:37:07 -0800
"Nerius Landys" <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:

>  correct me if I'm wrong
> someone.  It seems that the issue is a hardware issue.  For example, try a
> different jumper configuration on the back of the physical hard drive.
> Also, there are probably two places on the IDE cable where you can plug in
> your hard drive.  Try plugging your hard drive to the very end IDE connector
> (not the middle one) and try setting the hard drive jumper configuration to
> "master".  This might help.  Just an idea.

Thanks for the suggestions ....

The jumper leads are set to Mater with no slave

I  have tried using the other IDE conector, but it makes no difference