From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 25 16:11:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ninsei.com (h24-66-208-45.xx.wave.shaw.ca [24.66.208.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A50014D12 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 1999 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dreamer@freelow.ninsei.com) Received: (qmail 493 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Jul 1999 23:10:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 1999 23:10:30 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:10:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Steven Young To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Big drive on old machine. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ apologies if you folks have already seen this once - I sent it before my authorization had come back from majordomo, so I'm not sure if it went through ] Hi there. I've recently done the unthinkable and purchased a new hard drive, a 6.48GB Fujitsu. However, it is in an old 486 machine whose BIOS is too aged to deal with large drives. FreeBSD is unable to recognize the drive at all unless I set the jumpers on the drive to "Legacy mode", in which case only 2.1GB of the drive is recognized, by the BIOS or FreeBSD. Can anyone tell me how to get FreeBSD to recognize the rest of the drive? I couldn't find anything in the Handbook/FAQ. Thanks for your help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message