Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:34:18 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: bob89@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org, shamrock@cypherpunks.to Subject: Re: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. Message-ID: <1025627658.56a94ffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Bob Johnson <bob89@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:54:14 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD problem: $50 reward. "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> wrote > Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. [snip] 2) Make sure the drive is not jumpered to report only the first 1024 cylinders to the BIOS. Some drives come with the jumper installed by default, for compatibility with older BIOSes. [snip] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ That's not the default on the A7V333. There's room for 4 IDE drives, 2 on a Promise controller with RAID capability, 2 others. The Promise controller is jumpered by default to enable RAID. As Jack Stone suggested, Lucky may want to try running his drive without RAID enabled, either by changing the jumper or using the non-RAID IDE controller. There's also the possibility this is a problem with the ata driver in 4.6-RELEASE when used with very large hard drives, something I mentioned in a previous message. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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