Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 04:23:14 +0100 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre-lists@9online.fr> To: "Marcelo Souza" <mpsouza@centroin.com.br>, <freebsd-config@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Large IDE disk / old BIOS Message-ID: <007601c3f373$eb8fbc00$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> References: <Pine.BSI.4.33.0402061709580.29789-100000@hypselo.centroin.com.br>
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"Marcelo Souza" <mpsouza@centroin.com.br> wrote: > > I know it's an old question, but I couldn't find the answer for > this case. > > Machine: Pentium MMX 233Mhz, BIOS from 1997, hanging to recognize > the 120GB IDE disk. > I had to close that 32GB limit jumper on disk, to continue > the boot. > > Q: How to make FreeBSD recognize the total disk capacity? > > Trying FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. depending on your drive manufacturer, install a disk-manager such as maxtor's MaxBlast (http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm) which upgrade your BIOS on the fly at boot time. take care, while installing a disk-manager, all your drive datas will be destroyed since the drive needs to be reformated. PS : to install MaxBlast, you need at leat one Mastor drive on your machine. usually, a floppy disk containing the drive manufacturer disk manager is given w/ your drive. if not, it is installed on the drive and should be backup before reformatting the drive... if your drive manufacturer don't give you a disk manager, take a look at ez-drive from Micro House (which seems to be dead !) or ontrack (http://www.ontrack.com/diskmanager). Regards, Cyrille Lefevre. -- home: mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net
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