On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:25:04PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote: > Fifty bucks to the person that is first to help me solve this problem. > > 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. > > 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. > > Any suggestions how to overcome the problem are appreciated. I need to > very badly copy some data from a FireWire drive with FAT32 partitions > onto the new FreeBSD installation before 6 AM PDT. > Set it up to the dangerously dedicated mode covering the entire disk, using the `F' key and answering `No' to the forthcoming question, while in the slice editor.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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