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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward.
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:25:04PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem.
>=20
> I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version
> 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new
> Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many
> times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x.
>=20
> The partition editor and disklabel only see 8056MB of my 120GB drive. In
> other words, I am being stopped by the 8.4GB barrier. Obviously, Asus'
> new motherboard supports IDE drives larger than 8.4GB.  Following some
> suggestions, I wrote a slice and disklabels to the drive at 8.4GB. This
> did not help. The drive is still only being recognized at 8.4GB.
>=20
> Any suggestions how to overcome the problem are appreciated. I need to
> very badly copy some data from a FireWire drive with FAT32 partitions
> onto the new FreeBSD installation before 6 AM PDT.
>=20
Set it up to the dangerously dedicated mode covering the entire disk,
using the `F' key and answering `No' to the forthcoming question,
while in the slice editor.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software AG,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
+380.652.512.251	Simferopol, Ukraine

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