From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 9:27:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C5737BC79 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3LGRcn36589; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:27:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200004211627.e3LGRcn36589@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: Old BIOS, large HD, and FreeBSD 4.0R In-Reply-To: from Doug Poland at "Apr 21, 2000 07:11:13 am" To: Doug Poland Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: ListServer FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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