Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:19:19 -0700 From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <000501c2217f$a53fcbe0$6401a8c0@LUCKYVAIO> In-Reply-To: <20020702035502.GA18522@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>
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[Folks that submitted suggestions are bcc'ed] Below is additional information that has been requested: Neither setting the drive in the BIOS to "AUTO", nor "LBA", nor "LARGE" makes any difference. The BIOS sees 1027 cylinders, 225 heads, 63 sectors, which is exactly what fdisk is seeing. With all of the above cases, the settings for cylinders, heads, etc. remain grayed out. I am unable to change any of those settings. The motherboard has 4 IDE connectors: primary and secondary IDE and two Promise RAID IDE connectors. The HD is connected to the primary IDE connector via an UDMA 100 cable. The drive is only IDE device on the system. When the drive is jumpered as MASTER, the BIOS fails to detect the drive. The BIOS will detected the drive when the drive is without jumpers. The drive has no jumpers that would allow me to reduce the size. (Nobody would buy a 120GB drive just so they can jumper it down to 8.4GB :) One potential hint might be that right after POST, the MBfast Track (Promise Technologies) RAID manager starts up. It goes through a drive seek phase, when it can't find any RAID drives, I have to hit Escape out of the RAID manager. If there is a way to disable the RAID manager, preventing it from trying to find drives in the first place, I have yet to figure it out and it is not mentioned in the motherboard manual. Thanks, --Lucky > -----Original Message----- > From: Miroslav Pendev > [mailto:shadow@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.ro > gers.com] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:55 PM > To: Lucky Green > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. > > > 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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