From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 30 17:59:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 48FED16A41F for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:59:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-3.gradwell.net (lon-mail-3.gradwell.net [193.111.201.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E1A343D64 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:59:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from 82-39-194-120.stb.ubr02.jarr.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.39.194.120] helo=webmaker@asgard.uk) by lon-mail-3.gradwell.net with esmtp (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.207) id 43b5758c.95f.67 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:59:40 +0000 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:59:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512301759.36540.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Re: New IDE drive in old PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:59:45 -0000 On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:57, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII > 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I > try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and > bsdlabelled it as 250GB without problem using FBSD6. > > I think if I could have booted there would have been no problem with the > disk on the IDE chain as FBSD sees disks directly not through the BIOS > (or so I understand). FWIW my file/print server is old too. CPU is an AMD K6/2-350. It boots from a 20GB drive and then FreeBSD sees the 160GB and 40GB drives. The BIOS sees the 40GB drive as 8GB and doesn't see the 160GB drive at all. I set all but the primary master BIOS drive settings to NONE. I also learned to my cost when experimenting with installing FreeBSD that setting the BIOS to NONE for an HDD which is actually plugged in doesn't stop FreeBSD from seeing it or formatting it when I slected the "first" drive as the one to slice up ;-) -- Dave