From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 08:26:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18523 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt093n15.san.rr.com [204.210.49.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA18518 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 798 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Oct 1998 15:26:36 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: "Shishir K. Ramam" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help installing WD hard drive... In-Reply-To: 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 On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Shishir K. Ramam wrote: > I am having trouble getting free bsd to recognize a western digital hard > drive. any help would be greatly appreciated. more details follow... > > the drive in question : WDC AC33100 (3 gig hard drive) > the geomwtry : 6136 Cyl | 16 heads | 63 S/T | 512 T/S Does your machine support large hard disks in the BIOS, i.e. LBA? (Any Pentium or recent 486 should.) If not, you probably won't be able to use an IDE drive larger than 540 MB. (This is the other reason I prefer SCSI... :> ) ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message