From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 21:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6DE1531F for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA17747; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:33:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000121052317.00c66470@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:31:16 +0100 To: Kent Hauser From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200001210351.WAA27130@rtp.tfd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 22:51 20.01.00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi > >Thanks a lot for your note. Maybe I missstated my problem: >my drive works great with W98, but is not recognized by FBSD.] >Any thoughts on what I might do (besides sending the drive/controller >to you:=>) > Hi! Ok, what you can do: 1) get and flash new Mobo BIOS 2)get and flash new drive firmware, if available. BTW: which exact model number has your drive? 3) change cabling, if you have the 80-pin cable, swap against a 40pin, to force DMA/33 mode. Also make sure that there are all jumpers correct. 4) unhook those 2 CD-ROMS, try putting it as Master only on a controller 5) fiddle with BIOS settings, tell the BIOS that it shall _not_ use auto mode, but you tell it to use whether DMA/33 or PIO, if that helps. 6) Sometimes, if drives are over 8 GB, you have to use LARGE mode instead of LBA to get them detected correctly. Because LARGE uses different way of approching it through BIOS than LBA, it sometimes works. At least M$ NT has sometimes trouble with LBA and needs LARGE. Seems also to depend on mobo manufacturer and chipset. BTW: Which model/rev. is your mainboard? (Am discussing things like these also on other lists, maybe they have a clue, since they are building lots of DMA/33 and 66 systems) if nothing helps: send it to me ;-))) Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message