Subject: Re: >8gb disks on Dell Inspiron 3000, any ideas?
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/12/2002 21:20:06
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:52:49AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> Hello folks. I'm trying to install a new disk in my Dell Inspiron
> 3000 laptop computer ant put NetBSD and Windows back on it. Unfortunately,
> the BIOS is not upgradable to the point where it supports >8gb disks. No
> problem, I thought. The old disk, a 4GB IBM, was UDMA33 capable, and did
> LBA addressing. I figured NetBSD would see the 8GB disk through the BIOS,
> the 30GB through the disk inquiry directly, and I'd be set.
Could you post the exact boot messages ?
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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