Re: Large IDE disk / old BIOS

"Marcelo Souza" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I know it's an old question, but I couldn't find the answer for
> this case.
> 
> Machine: Pentium MMX 233Mhz, BIOS from 1997, hanging to recognize
> the 120GB IDE disk.
> I had to close that 32GB limit jumper on disk, to continue
> the boot.
> 
> Q: How to make FreeBSD recognize the total disk capacity?
> 
> Trying FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

depending on your drive manufacturer, install a disk-manager
such as maxtor's MaxBlast
(http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast3.htm)
which upgrade your BIOS on the fly at boot time.

take care, while installing a disk-manager, all your drive
datas will be destroyed since the drive needs to be
reformated.

PS : to install MaxBlast, you need at leat one Mastor drive
on your machine. usually, a floppy disk containing the
drive manufacturer disk manager is given w/ your drive.
if not, it is installed on the drive and should be backup
before reformatting the drive... if your drive manufacturer
don't give you a disk manager, take a look at ez-drive
from Micro House (which seems to be dead !) or ontrack
(http://www.ontrack.com/diskmanager).

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre.
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