From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 17:19:10 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 6CCBE16A423 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:19:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE2ED43D78 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:18:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C45FD2E030 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:18:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:18:21 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: AycKgyl7PnGVCqiagvjkjbDNqQ0LhxqJlIAkNpdXUlqE 1135876700 Received: from gumby.localdomain (88-104-201-248.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [88.104.201.248]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D7057146D for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:18:20 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:18:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512291718.18306.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> 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: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:19:10 -0000 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).