From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 26 18:51:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0430016A421 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F1113C461 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:51:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m0QIpAJ8098193; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Chris Whitehouse" , Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:52:13 -0800 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 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <479A896C.2010001@onetel.com> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:51:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: Subject: RE: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master ... [Press F4 to skip] 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: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:51:13 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chris > Whitehouse > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: formatting disk for FreeBSD : Detecting IDE Primary Master > ... [Press F4 to skip] > > > Nerius Landys wrote: > > > > > > The earler comment about the disk being too big might be the > issue. Update > > the motherboard's BIOS to the latest revision. You may have to do some > > digging to find this for an old motherboard. Tell us if that helps. > > _______________________________________________ > > Some motherboards had an upper limit on hard disk size which I think was > 32gb. Some drives have a jumper to limit the apparent size to 32gb (if > that was the size). > There have been lots of different limits through the years. The 32GB limit was an Award bios thing. You can read about them here: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm What the original poster needs to do is go and buy a used Promise or other UDMA controller card, insert the card in his PC, turn off the disk controller in BIOS, and use his 80GB disk. Ted