freebsd stable - Jul 2003 - ATA refusing additional disks

Hi,

The other day I tried to upgrade my firewall by adding another disk. 
However, no matter what I've tried I haven't been able to resolve this 
problem. If I try to mount, fsck or disklabel the disk the process will 
simply halt with no output and will do nothing. ^C also fails to 
operate, as well as kill -9 (meaning the drive gets locked and I have to 
reboot to try again).

I know for certain each disk is operating perfectly fine.

I stuck my root disk in another machine, attempting to add a second 
drive to come across the same problem... so it must be FreeBSD.

Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Peter Hoskin

Just a follow up, apparently its not the disk causing the problem. I
found using atacontrol to attach a channel that has no disks (and had no
disks when I detached it) will lock up as described previously.

Peter Hoskin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The other day I tried to upgrade my firewall by adding another disk. 
> However, no matter what I've tried I haven't been able to resolve
this
> problem. If I try to mount, fsck or disklabel the disk the process 
> will simply halt with no output and will do nothing. ^C also fails to 
> operate, as well as kill -9 (meaning the drive gets locked and I have 
> to reboot to try again).
>
> I know for certain each disk is operating perfectly fine.
>
> I stuck my root disk in another machine, attempting to add a second 
> drive to come across the same problem... so it must be FreeBSD.
>
> Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Hoskin
>
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