Re: Large IDE disk / old BIOS (Cyrille Lefevre)

The original recommendation of getting a bios update still applies.
see:http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=Gkoys24h&p_lva=&p_faqid=1062&p_created=1023140877&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9Njg2JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=


Rgrds

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> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 04:23:14 +0100
> From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Large IDE disk / old BIOS
> To: "Marcelo Souza" <[email protected]>,
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> "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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