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From: "John P. Nelson" <jnelson@ns1.internoc.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: New BIOS for 4gig drive?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:31:23 -0600
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On 5 Jan 1996, Paul wrote:
> In article <4bh8j5$qfa@hops.entertain.com>, dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) says:
> .......
> >When I reboot the machine, right before the drive names get
> >printed on the screen, and before the BSDi boot block gets
> >loaded, I get a message which says something to the effect that
> >I have to upgrade my BIOS!  This seems to be coming from the
> >BusLogics card, not BSDi.  I didn't get this message before
> >adding the 4-gig drive, so I suspect that my BIOS is an earlier
> >one which either can't support a 4-gig drive, or can't support
> >4 gigs in a single partition.  ;)  It would also explain why
> >I got 'can't write label' messages when I tried to partition the 
> >drive.

> >Thanks for any help. 
> There is also a patch for 4+ gig drives, its u200-001 i beleive, go 
> look on the ftp site. i use a pci bus, pentium 90 and adaptec 1542, with 
> two seagate 4.2 gig drives no problem. 

I believe that the patch is actually K200-001