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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.fibr.net!news.world-net.net!ns1.internoc.net!jnelson 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 Organization: World Net, Inc. - San Antonio, TX Lines: 20 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960115133015.1717E-100000@ns1.internoc.net> References: <4bh8j5$qfa@hops.entertain.com> <4cif30$34g@agis.ag.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns1.internoc.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4cif30$34g@agis.ag.net> On 5 Jan 1996, Paul wrote: > In article <4bh8j5$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