Date: 01 Jul 2002 20:02:57 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <1025578977.425.37.camel@johncoop.borgsdemons.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> References: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO>
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What form are you using for the drive in the BIOS--LBA or Large? Trying
forcing it to Large (sometime "LG") write down the geometry determined
by the BIOS, and enter it with fdisk using during the install. This
should work. :)
jmc
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 18:25, Lucky Green wrote:
> Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem.
>
> I have a brand new Asus A7V333 motherboard with the latest BIOS version
> 1007. I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.6 via floppies onto a brand new
> Western Digital WD1200AB 120GB IDE drive. I have installed FreeBSD many
> times before going back to FreeBSD 2.x.
>
> The partition editor and disklabel only see 8056MB of my 120GB drive. In
> other words, I am being stopped by the 8.4GB barrier. Obviously, Asus'
> new motherboard supports IDE drives larger than 8.4GB. Following some
> suggestions, I wrote a slice and disklabels to the drive at 8.4GB. This
> did not help. The drive is still only being recognized at 8.4GB.
>
> Any suggestions how to overcome the problem are appreciated. I need to
> very badly copy some data from a FireWire drive with FAT32 partitions
> onto the new FreeBSD installation before 6 AM PDT.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Lucky
>
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