From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 07:11:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C50D16A41F for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:11:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2633243D5E for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:11:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 21476 invoked by uid 510); 28 Dec 2005 07:14:02 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/1146. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.11834 secs); 28 Dec 2005 07:14:02 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-3.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.11834 secs Process 21469) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 28 Dec 2005 07:14:01 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: Robert Ames In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:14:01 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: New IDE drive in old PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:11:42 -0000 On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to > only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC > (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. > This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. > However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question > is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and > attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 > GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. > 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? Robert, If you had to jumper the boot disk for it to work with the BIOS of the motherboard, then the chances are that you would have to do the same with the 2nd hard drive. ISTR that ASUS produced updated BIOS' for most of their motherboards to get around this. Have a look at their website to see if there is and upgrade. There is also a area on the site for questions such as yours. Rob