From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 21 13:20:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw01.execpc.com (mailgw01.execpc.com [169.207.2.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2296737B865 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpoland@execpc.com) Received: from judah (spira-2-17.mdm.fox.execpc.com [169.207.24.145]) by mailgw01.execpc.com (8.9.1) id PAA22577; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:20:24 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Bhishan Hemrajani" Cc: "ListServer FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Old BIOS, large HD, and FreeBSD 4.0R Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:20:16 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200004211627.e3LGRcn36589@cytosine.dhs.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal 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 > It says Ultra ATA/66. So that means I'll have to get a new IDE controller for the box? Any ideas how much a controller costs and suggested eRetailers? Appreciate your help! -- Doug > > > > 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