From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 1 9: 0:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from geek.grf.ov.com (geek.grf.ov.com [192.251.86.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA56152F9; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ksmm@threespace.com) Received: from pebbles (pebbles.cam.veritas.com [166.98.49.16]) by geek.grf.ov.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA01178; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:00:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: X-Sender: ksmm@mail.cybercom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:59:58 -0500 To: hardware@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org From: The Classiest Man Alive Subject: Ans: Booting from large EIDE drive In-Reply-To: <36D60D0D.E58DC428@wright.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I asked this question a little while ago and just wanted to report the answer I'd found. An SA recommended that I upgrade the BIOS on my ASUS P2L97 motherboard. I did it using a rather simple procedure, and now the hard drive works just as expected. Getting all those OSes to live together in harmony is another issue, but all the hardware matters are solved. Thanks to all who responded. K.S. >The Classiest Man Alive wrote: >> >> I recently purchased an 8.4 GB IBM EIDE hard drive. I wanted to install >> OS/2, Linux, and FreeBSD on it, but I can't find a way to boot from the >> partitions at the end of the drive because of the geometry of it. >> >> I've tried setting the drive up for LBA in the BIOS, I've tried changing >> the drive's geometry using disk utilities (like fdisk), I've even tried >> different boot utilities (IBM's Boot Manager, System Commander, etc.) all >> to no avail. >> __________________________ >> >> Have I encountered a limitation of EIDE hard drives larger than 8.4 GB? >> (My understanding is that they all use the same geometry beyond that point. >> Perhaps that cannot be changed?) >> >> Is it possibly a deficiency of the IBM drives or my system's BIOS that >> prevents it from being able to do this? For instance, would a Maxtor or >> Quantum or WD EIDE drive have the same problems? (I'm also under the >> impression that some of the logic for this sector translation resides >> within the hard drive itself.) >> >> Am I doing something wrong? Missing something? >> >> If I bought a big (i.e., >9 GB) SCSI drive, would I have these same problems? >> ___________________________ >> >> Many thanks in advance for any help...especially if it saves me money. ;-) >> >> K.S. >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message