From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 18:01:51 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 41D2316A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DE143D45 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FB65E36; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28452-01; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF42A5C43; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:01:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43B42493.5090807@mac.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 13:01:55 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Whitehouse References: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com 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: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:51 -0000 Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: [ ... ] >>> 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. [ ... ] FreeBSD will use LBA addressing modes, even if your BIOS does not support it. However, to access a drive above 137GB, your hardware needs to support 48-bit LBA. However, you can get a PCI ATA controller to do the job which is cheap and convenient, or simply update your MB to something newer... -- -Chuck