Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:27:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org> To: Doug Poland <dpoland@execpc.com> Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Old BIOS, large HD, and FreeBSD 4.0R Message-ID: <200004211627.e3LGRcn36589@cytosine.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAIEJPDGAA.dpoland@execpc.com> from Doug Poland at "Apr 21, 2000 07:11:13 am"
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Is the HD UDMA/66 or /33? If it is, you will have to get a controller because those old systems don't support UDMA. That's probably why it isn't showing up in the BIOS. --bhishan [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hello, > > I've got an old 486 with phoenix BIOS dated 1992. I > tried to install an new WD 17.4GB hard drive and set > the Master drive to auto-detect. Upon boot the > BIOS tells me there's an error auto-detecting the > drive. > > If I set drive0 to not installed and continue > with 4.0R installation, the probe finds the drive > on ad0, and can read/write during an install. > > It looks like my BIOS simply will not recognize > this HD. Is there anyway around it? Can I boot > off a "FreeBSD boot floppy" and then load the > kernel from the hard drive. > > I know the obvious question is why am I wasting > my time with this old box? Well, it was free, > I got a great deal on two Western Digital HDs, > and this machine's only purpose in life is to > run FreeBSD and act as a hard-drive back-up > device. > > Thanks for all the help. > > -- > Doug Poland > dpoland@execpc.com > > > > 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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