From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 9 16:48:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from analog.org (r68h117.res.gatech.edu [128.61.68.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356C315031 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dono@analog.org) Received: from localhost (dono@localhost) by analog.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04411 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:46:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 19:46:20 -0400 (EDT) From: dono To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: >2.1GB EIDE disks on old BIOS? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Here's the situation: I have an old 486DX2/66 with a PhoenixBIOS dating back to (I believe August) '94 (specifically, it's a Packard Bell Legend 61CD with an identical replacement BIOS from Micro Firmware). Currently, it has a IBM DeskStar 2.1GB and a Western Digital Caviar 1.6GB (both EIDE). I want to get rid of those two drives, and put in one 6-8GB disk. Would my BIOS support it? If not, would FreeBSD, either 2.2.8R or 3.1R, still be able to see/use the entire disk? Would I be able to boot from that disk (any partition size limitations?)? d. KeyID 1024/570E72C5 (or just ``finger dono@async.org'') Fingerprint 8A 74 C8 E4 A8 8D 00 FE 01 EF 9F BB 75 38 17 6F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message