From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 15:50:52 2003 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 DDB6937B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com [12.229.238.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B13343F93 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 57299 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2003 23:50:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bartxp) (192.168.0.2) by 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 2003 23:50:49 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "'Jasvinder S. Bahra'" , Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD on older machine on a 20GB Hard Drive Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:50:39 -0800 Message-ID: <000c01c2e504$5e5d06e0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <002d01c2e503$9590c2b0$0200010a@orion> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 >=20 > Evenin' folks, >=20 > I have an old Pentium 120Hz machine that is acting as a=20 > firewall/gateway for my network. >=20 > Recently, the 4GB hard drive started to make strange noises=20 > and drive errors started popping up. So I replaced the hard=20 > drive with the smallest new hard drive I could get hold of - a 20GB. >=20 > Straight away, *strange* things started to happen. In the=20 > BIOS setup screens, I got it to auto-detect the new drive=20 > settings, and got a bit of a surprise. You see it only=20 > detected it as a 8GB hard drive. Whats more, when the system=20 > booted at the hard drive detection stage, the system locked.=20 > I also tried manually entering the correct hard drive=20 > settings, but the BIOS would not accept them. Probaby due to BIOS age. Older BIOS won't recognize drives over 8gig without firmware update (if possible). If you don't have another drive around, you might use the size limit switch on the drive (if IDE) and limit it to 2gig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message