From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 10: 1:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tekrealm.net (40bc21de.dsl.flashcom.net [64.188.33.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E572F37B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elite (elite.tekrealm.net [64.188.33.218]) by tekrealm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA01564 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@tekrealm.net) Message-ID: <005a01c03212$9113fbe0$da21bc40@tekrealm.net> From: "Elitetek" To: References: <39E0BEEB.BC95C300@ispchannel.com><20001009093531.G4647@poeza.iconnect.co.ke><39E1BCA9.488B6626@ispchannel.com> <87lmvynosk.wl@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> Subject: Re: BIOS unsupported HDDs Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:01:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Mark Hummel writes: > > > Odhiambo, > > 4.1.1 will recognize a 20 GB HDD even if the BIOS does not? That's amazing! > > How can an OS recognize hardware without consulting the BIOS? > > > I'm anxious to read your reply, but in the mean time, I will begin preparing to > > upgrade my FBSD system to 4.1.1. BTW, is that version current or stable? > > > Mark > > > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > FreeBSD (I think) does not use the BIOS for much information. Case in > point, I have a 17.2G HD that my BIOS probes as 8G. FreeBSD sees the > entire drive and I am using just fine as my primary master (so, yes, I > am booting fine off the drive.) > > -- > Jonathan Fosburgh > Open Systems > Communications and Computer Services > UT MD Anderson Cancer Center > Houston, TX > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > For the most part with large Hardrives, including that 40gig mentioned earlier in this thread, if you set the bios to auto (ewww.. but it works) for that channel that the hardrive is on, it can usually be detected, and will work just fine if the o/s knows how to handle it. matter of fact thats how i got my 40 gig drive to work with FreeBSD. And i believe Maxtor just released an article about a week ago if I remember correctly, that states after a certain amount of cylinders that you *have* to use auto, or it wont work correctly. Im currious if that person has tried that yet, i havent followed the thread completely, but i seen pplz telling him to switch it to none, and a bunch of other options. also another possible solution is to set the bios for type 9 if it has it, if it doesnt use Type 47 (should be user) 1024 cyl 16 heads 63 sectors Then try Installing FreeBSD, then it should pick up the full size (i have not tried that on FreeBSD, but it works on other O/S's and from what i can tell of bsd, it should work with it also) EliteTek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message