--As of May 19, 2011 5:30:19 PM -0400, Robert Simmons is alleged to have
said:
I recently upgraded a hard drive to an SSD drive. Initially I bought
a cheap(er) Microcenter house branded SATA II drive (after looking
around online it turns out it is really an A-Data that was rebranded).
It was recognized by the BIOS, but not by FreeBSD. I decided to
return it and try a name brand (OCZ Vertex 2, 60GB) with the same
results. The system is 8.2-RELEASE and this is a fresh install.
The motherboard (ASRock K8Upgrade-NF3, nForce3 250 chipset) is only
SATA, not SATA II, but it has another SATA II drive (not SSD) that is
recognized just fine even without the jumper set to force it to SATA.
So, I don't think it is a problem with the drive negotiating down to
SATA, otherwise I don't think the BIOS would recognize it at all.
What is the best way to figure out why FreeBSD does not recognize the
drive?
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Well, the traditional first start would be a dmesg.
I'm not sure if there is any possible reason why a SATA II drive might not
work on a SATA I interface, but I suppose it's a possibility. A good
regular HD can fill a SATA I interface, so it could be possible that they
never expected an SSD to be attached to one.
Daniel T. Staal
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