Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:49 -0500 From: David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <72F435C7-8D69-11D6-A2D4-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> In-Reply-To: <20020702013858.GE25434@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Monday, July 1, 2002, at 08:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > [dropping -hackers] > > On Monday, 1 July 2002 at 18:25:04 -0700, 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. > > Check your BIOS settings. You want LBA. > > Greg > If Greg's suggested is not the problem, you might check the geometry detected by fdisk for the drive. If I remember right, I think I got an error about it and I had to plug something in. Currently mine shows: 39704 cyls/128 heads/63 sectors Hope this helps, DaveD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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