Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:34:53 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> Cc: mike@ascendency.net, <shovey@buffnet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bios not recognizing correct HD size Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301131028150.4035-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <20030110211502.48eabac7.judmarc@fastmail.fm>
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Jud wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:50:45 -0600 > "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Also make sure the jumpers are correctly set on the drive. Sometimes > > > the jumpers can be set to fake the disk size reported to the BIOS. > [snip] > > Perhaps you've answered this and I didn't catch it: How are your > jumpers set? Hmmm... That one I've forgotten. It was quite a long itme I tried to do this. Anyway, as the BIOS is only used when booting they probably should be set to report the disk as smaller than it actually is. After booting the BIOS isn't involved so that restriction should not apply. But I'm not sure. You could maybe make some trial-and-error investigation on what works and what does not? As Mike (I think it was him) wrote, you could also buy an ATA board with BIOS. That I've done that several times and it works great! Good luck! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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