From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 17:57:35 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 05B6216A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBC943D5A for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:57:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.60] ([82.35.113.87]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:58:27 +0000 Message-ID: <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:57:19 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Dec 2005 17:58:27.0163 (UTC) FILETIME=[782582B0:01C60CA1] 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 17:57:35 -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? 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. I think if I could have booted there would have been no problem with the disk on the IDE chain as FBSD sees disks directly not through the BIOS (or so I understand). I can test on a P5AB if you want but it will take a day or two. Chris