From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 11:16:15 2002 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 902DB37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:16:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79D243E77 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA7JGAtk017987 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:16:10 +0100 (CET) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h76n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.76]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA01304 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:16:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 7594 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Nov 2002 19:16:04 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:16:04 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Avleen Vig Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting the BIOS version without rebooting / 8Gb+ drives Message-ID: <20021107191604.GA7571@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Avleen Vig , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20021106135443.K537-100000@apple.silverwraith.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021106135443.K537-100000@apple.silverwraith.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:55:46PM +0000, Avleen Vig wrote: > Thre are utilities availible for Windows/DOS that allow you to get the > BIOS and chipset versions etc from a command prompt. Some of these are > written by the BIOS manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers but most > are third party freeware jobs. > > Is anythign similar availible for FreeBSD? I have a server hosted I don't think so. Those utilities usually access the hardware and BIOS directly which is a bit more difficult under FreeBSD. > remotely, and I need to know which version of the BIOS is in it (it's > quite old). I need this to know whether it will allow me to plug in drives > larger than 8gb. > > Also I assume BIOS assume BIOS support is required for drives greater than > 8Gb, for me to use said drives with FreeBSD? Not really no. It is normally only an issue if you try to boot from an area of a disk that is located beyond what the BIOS supports. > I'll be booting off a 2Gb drive but feel there's a chance my BIOS doesn't > support a 20Gb drive. Can I still use it as secondary master?? Should work fine. FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS to access the disk so once FreeBSD is loaded you don't need to worry about the BIOS. > > Yes, I am talking about the 8Gb limit that was overcome several years ago > :-) Yeah, I have an old computer that has teh even older 528MB limit which currently runs FreeBSD just fine using a 1.3GB disk. No problems. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message