> > Evenin' folks, > > I have an old Pentium 120Hz machine that is acting as a > firewall/gateway for my network. > > Recently, the 4GB hard drive started to make strange noises > and drive errors started popping up. So I replaced the hard > drive with the smallest new hard drive I could get hold of - a 20GB. > > Straight away, *strange* things started to happen. In the > BIOS setup screens, I got it to auto-detect the new drive > settings, and got a bit of a surprise. You see it only > detected it as a 8GB hard drive. Whats more, when the system > booted at the hard drive detection stage, the system locked. > I also tried manually entering the correct hard drive > settings, but the BIOS would not accept them.
Probaby due to BIOS age. Older BIOS won't recognize drives over 8gig without firmware update (if possible). If you don't have another drive around, you might use the size limit switch on the drive (if IDE) and limit it to 2gig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
