From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 16:48:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D28637B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960AA43ED8 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:48:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h090m4jG002700; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:48:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h090m3Ui002697; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:48:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:48:03 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Mike Loiterman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bios not recognizing correct HD size In-Reply-To: <000c01c2b76e$02b5f540$0302a8c0@mike> Message-ID: <20030108174640.V2535@wonkity.com> References: <000c01c2b76e$02b5f540$0302a8c0@mike> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: > I have an old Compaq machine that I'm trying to install a 20 gig drive > into, but it's only recognizing the first 2112MB. Obviously this is a > limitation of the BIOS. Hold on a second... > Drive is Primary Master and the Cylinder Limitation Jumper is set as well. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Unset it and see what happens. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message