Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:18:16 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New IDE drive in old PC Message-ID: <200512291718.18306.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <BAY114-F11182790EDEB51D8CD3EDBC9370@phx.gbl> <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > 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. I would have thought the main issue is support for 48-bit LBA. The limit for 32-bit LBA is 137GB (128 GiB).
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