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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:16:51 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        FBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New IBM drive setting problem?
Message-ID:  <20020124171651.GC1213@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <3C501806.F9DE2049@mitre.org>
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIEIMCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> <3C501806.F9DE2049@mitre.org>

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On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:19:50AM -0500, Jason Andresen wrote:
> Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> > 
> > Here is my advice, since you have only one device per motherboard
> > ide controller this config should work, this means you have some
> > thing incorrect with the hardware. Open up the box and check out
> > that the components are plugged in the correct sockets on the
> > motherboard, that you are not using a 33 wire ribbon to the hard
> > drive, get the mfg and model number off the id plate of the HD and
> > look it up on the mfg web page to verify it's 100, there is a visual
> > difference in ide ribbons, 33 has bigger wires and 66 has smaller
> > wires and 66 of them. I do not know about 100 but it may also have a
> > special ribbon. Check with motherboard manufacture web page for a bios,
> > flash update and verify that you motherboard model does support ATA/100.
> > 
> > It's time you play detective.
> 
> Sorry, I thought I'd mentioned all of this in the original email:
> 
> The hard drive is an IBM 60GXP 40GB HD (as the probed model number 
> indicates).  It supports up to ATA100.

I have one of these disks, it runs FreesBSD/ATA100 without any problems.
So I doubt it's the disk.

> The cable is an ATA100 compliant (80 conductor) cable.
> Hmm.  There appears to be a new BIOS on the website, but it only claims
> to fix problems with the Athlon XP 2000+.  I'll try installing it anyway
> to see if that makes a difference.  
> The Motherboard is a SolTek SL-75DRV2 which according to the webpage
> "Supports Ultra ATA 100/66/33".  What seems really strange to me is how
> the DVD-ROM comes up as ATA66 (that's the maximum it can support) while
> the Hard Drive comes up ATA33.
> 
> I'm really stumped on this myself.

-- 
Regards
Cliff



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