New PATA Drive
Doug Hardie
bc979 at lafn.org
Mon Oct 13 15:45:46 PDT 2008
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.
>>
>> I am suspecting that the issue is the drive ATA/100 is not falling
>> back to ATA/66/33 such that the motherboard can properly detect it.
>> Seagate does provide a utility to reset the drive back down from ATA/
>> 100 but it requires that the boot get through to run the utility.
>> The
>> drive works fine in a Mac but the utility won't run there. I can
>> continue to search for hardware that can boot with the drive attached
>> to run the utility or am I chasing my tail here?
>>
>> Drive: Seagate ST3160815A
>>
>> Motherboard: ASUS P2L97 - Manual says ATA/33 only.
>
> I have had exactly that sort of problem with a 160G Seagate drive on
> old
> hardware. And even if it did work it would have only recognized 128G
> due
> to hardware or BIOS limitations.
I could live with that. The drive its replacing is only 60 GB and its
less than 10% used.
>
>
> In the end I swapped an old HD out of another machine that was happy
> with the new drive.
>
> A CPU and motherboard that does recognize your ATA100 drive costs less
> than the HD. Perhaps its time to upgrade the MB?
Unfortunately the disk was free. MBs are not. I would love to
replace the entire system for a number of reasons, but the money just
isn't there for that. I'll keep chasing my tail.
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