Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:55:02 -0400 From: Miroslav Pendev <shadow@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <20020702035502.GA18522@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> References: <000401c22167$4c8e0880$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO>
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:25:04PM -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. > > 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 Hi Lucky! Two questions: What is the size of the disk that BIOS 'see'? Can you check the jumpers on the back on the hard drive? Sometimes the new large models HDD have 'limiter' jumers for the size. Usually, about 8-10 GB limit for compatibility with old mobo's BIOSes. Just an idea... ;-) --Miro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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