From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 20: 1:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dragonk.dtgnet.com (rap-dialup-197.dtgnet.com [216.16.6.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ADB114BDE for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:01:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Received: from dtgnet.com (localhost.dtgnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by dragonk.dtgnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29193 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:58:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dragonknight@dtgnet.com) Message-ID: <37097856.CC08858B@dtgnet.com> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:58:30 -0600 From: "Dragon Knight ][" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (no subject) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a fairly decent DX4/100 here (fairly decent meaning it has eisa slots. 72-pin simm slots, etc that won't run a hard disk above 540 megs. And i havent seen many 486's that will support over 2.1 gig or so. Samuel Greear Ladd J Epp wrote: > > Humm... > > Could this be the reason why my 10.1 Gig drive is only recognized as like > a 9.5 Gig drive in my OS, or does the OS need .6 Gig for addressing and > system information, etc..? > > ~Ladd > > On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Mark wrote: > > > > > > The maximum size of drive on your older 486 is likely 8.4 GIG.. > > > > ..but will most likely require a BIOS update to work. This was the case > > with my Pentium 133, which could only access a 3 GIG drive until the BIOS > > was updated. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Mark Rekai - INetU, Inc.(tm) - http://www.INetU.net > > Electronic commerce - Web development - Web hosting > > maxiter@INetU.net - Phone: (610) 266-7441 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ~|~ Samuel Greear ~|~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message