From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 20:19:26 2002 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 72FFB37B400; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fe3.cox-internet.com (fe3-cox.cox-internet.com [66.76.2.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A5643E09; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daved@nostrum.com) Received: from localhost ([66.76.153.241]) by fe3.cox-internet.com (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 201-232-137 license 8b8c7c02a6d7b485def54cb2fd930d8c) with SMTP id <20020702031055.XOLN11638.fe3@localhost>; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:10:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:49 -0500 Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: Lucky Green , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" From: David J Duchscher In-Reply-To: <20020702013858.GE25434@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-Id: <72F435C7-8D69-11D6-A2D4-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 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