Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <20020702103717.S59679-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO>
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Western Digital drives have three jumper settings instead of the usual two, I believe. That is, they have single, master with slave present, and slave. Try setting it to "single drive" instead of master. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Lucky Green wrote: > Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. > > I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version > 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new > Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many > times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x. > > The partition editor and disklabel only see 8056MB of my 120GB drive. In > other words, I am being stopped by the 8.4GB barrier. Obviously, Asus' > new motherboard supports IDE drives larger than 8.4GB. Following some > suggestions, I wrote a slice and disklabels to the drive at 8.4GB. This > did not help. The drive is still only being recognized at 8.4GB. > > Any suggestions how to overcome the problem are appreciated. I need to > very badly copy some data from a FireWire drive with FAT32 partitions > onto the new FreeBSD installation before 6 AM PDT. > > Thanks in advance, > --Lucky > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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