Hang on Post Caused by Drive

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Hey,

Got a weird problem.

I have a FOXCONN 945GZ7MC KS2H board and two SATA drives attached (1x320GB Samsung, 1x 1TB Seagate).

I've thrown FreeNAS on there and all was going well; until I setup my 1TB drive. I formatted it to the UFS filesystem from within FreeNAS. I managed to move files over and play with it for a little bit.

Ever since then; no matter what I do the system will not get past post if that drive is connected. I've tried taking the drive out, put it in another machine; it works fine - I even restored it back to an NTFS drive and it still hung at post on the other board.

I'm at a loss - does anyone have any ideas?
 
I had a similar problem, and after some testing I found that it's caused by the SATA port and not the drive. My system would hang on POST for 30-45seconds. I first took the offending drive out and everything was fine. Then I tried the drive on another port and the issue was also gone. Next, I put a known good drive back on the original port and the same issue popped back up. Put the second drive on another port and issue was gone again.
 
I've tried all 5 SATA ports with the drive; it hangs on every one even after a good drive has been in a previous port.
 
Hmm, maybe some BIOS incompatibility? Have you looked at the motherboard manufacture site and look at new BIOS? Maybe it was a problem that has been fixed since you're motherboard was originally manufactured.
 
I thought that; but it worked fine prior to the UFS format. Not sure why or what that did.

I've tried a full BIOS update - no luck,
 
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