From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 16:18:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA08863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:18:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mh2.cts.com (mh2.cts.com [209.68.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08839 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from preeper@cts.com) Received: from sgt361.cts.com (gt361.cts.com [204.212.158.91]) by mh2.cts.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA13438 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:18:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990118161047.04251070@crash.cts.com> X-Sender: preeper@crash.cts.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:10:47 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jerry Preeper Subject: WD 8.4GB hard drive question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm in the process of building a second system with both Win 95 and FreeBSD. I have noticed that when I try and use fdisk, it only shows the 8.4GB Western Digital Caviar hard drive as 504MB. According to Western Digital's web site, it looks like I need to use the EZ-Drive utility to be able to format and partition this disk. I have checked Asus' web site and been trying to download a new BIOS for the Asus P2L97S motherboard but Asus' ftp server has been down. I'm not sure if this will solve the problem with recognizing the size or not. My question is, should I keep trying and do the BIOS update first, or just use the EZ-Drive utility? Will either of these cause any problems on the FreeBSD side? I'm currently running 2.2.6-RELEASE and should be upgrading to 2.2.8-RELEASE soon. Thanks for any help. Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message