Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:01:55 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New IDE drive in old PC Message-ID: <43B42493.5090807@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> References: <BAY114-F11182790EDEB51D8CD3EDBC9370@phx.gbl> <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: [ ... ] >>> The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do >>> I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? > > I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII > 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I > try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and > bsdlabelled it as 250GB without problem using FBSD6. [ ... ] FreeBSD will use LBA addressing modes, even if your BIOS does not support it. However, to access a drive above 137GB, your hardware needs to support 48-bit LBA. However, you can get a PCI ATA controller to do the job which is cheap and convenient, or simply update your MB to something newer... -- -Chuck
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