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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kyle Rollin <klined@orbimus.dhs.org>
To: Vince Valenti <vince@blue-box.net>
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Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble
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Vince:

If the BIOS doesn't see the entire size of the drive, then neither will
FreeBSD.

Unless I'm wrong, you're stuck with 32GB...

-Kyle Rollin
klined@orbimus.dhs.org

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Vince Valenti wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I just purchased a Maxtor 45GB hard drive to stick in one of my FreeBSD
> boxes.  It is an older motherboard, an Abit TX5 with the latest BIOS
> revision.  When I originally installed the drive, the computer would hang
> when trying to detect the hard drive.  I then installed the Cylinder
> Limitation Jumper and it booted fine, but the BIOS only detects the drive
> as a 32GB drive.  I disabled the drive in the BIOS, and booted to FreeBSD.
> This is what gets reported by the kernel:
>
> ad2: 32253MB <Maxtor 54610H6> [65531/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
>
> What I'm wondering is, is it possible to use the entire capacity of the
> drive, or am I limited to 32GB?  If it is possible, what do I need to do?
>
> I really appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Vince Valenti
>
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