From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 5:55:52 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 0C87B37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:55:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.silverwraith.com (apple.silverwraith.com [212.25.240.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C99643E4A for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: (qmail 31804 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Nov 2002 13:55:46 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 13:55:46 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 13:55:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Avleen Vig X-X-Sender: avleen@apple.silverwraith.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting the BIOS version without rebooting / 8Gb+ drives Message-ID: <20021106135443.K537-100000@apple.silverwraith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thre are utilities availible for Windows/DOS that allow you to get the BIOS and chipset versions etc from a command prompt. Some of these are written by the BIOS manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers but most are third party freeware jobs. Is anythign similar availible for FreeBSD? I have a server hosted remotely, and I need to know which version of the BIOS is in it (it's quite old). I need this to know whether it will allow me to plug in drives larger than 8gb. Also I assume BIOS assume BIOS support is required for drives greater than 8Gb, for me to use said drives with FreeBSD? I'll be booting off a 2Gb drive but feel there's a chance my BIOS doesn't support a 20Gb drive. Can I still use it as secondary master?? Yes, I am talking about the 8Gb limit that was overcome several years ago :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message