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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!agis.ag.net!usenet From: root@ag.net (Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: New BIOS for 4gig drive? Date: 5 Jan 1996 06:05:20 GMT Organization: Access Global Information Services Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4cif30$34g@agis.ag.net> References: <4bh8j5$qfa@hops.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp8.ag.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6 In article <4bh8j5$qfa@hops.entertain.com>, dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) says: > >Hi! > >I am running BSDi 2.0 with patches. > >I have a lame-o 2 year-old Micronics 486/66 EISA motherboard, >a BusLogics 747C(?) SCSI controller, and have 3 1- or 2-gig >SCSI-II drives currently running. I started running out of >disk space for news, so I added a DEC 4-gig drive. > >I couldn't get disksetup to write a label on the drive, or to >remember partition info, so I newfs'ed the C partition, and am >using that for news. > >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. > >The drive performs poorly. One of my friends suggested that when >I newsfs'ed the drive for news (per the Lizard book suggestion), >I created a mess-load of inodes, and that too many are hampering >the drives' performance. > >I think that all of the above problems will be resolved with either: >1) A BIOS upgrade to the motherboard >2) A newer motherboard (anyone want a crappy motherboard?) >3) Some sort of BusLogics EEPROM upgrade. > >Does anyone know what is really happening here? I am not inclined >to put any more money in the Micronics board; I may just go out >and get a new Pentium board. > >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.