From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 14 8:50:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from DiXi.ICnet.UKRPACK.NET (DiXi.ICnet.UKRPACK.NET [212.1.97.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CDE1577C for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:50:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from og@ICnet.UKRPACK.NET) Received: from localhost (og@localhost) by DiXi.ICnet.UKRPACK.NET (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA00212 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:47:53 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:47:52 +0300 (EEST) From: Oleg Galenok To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: >2.1GB EIDE disks on old BIOS? In-Reply-To: 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 Hi there! On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, dono wrote: > 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. ok, i'm installed 2.2.5-RELEASE on Epson ActionTower3000 with Phoenix BIOS since 1994 with 486dx4-100/24mb and use Fujitsu MPC3064AT - 6.4Gb IDE HDD it's a mail, ftp and web - server 24/7 all working just fine :) > > Would my BIOS support it? i think (expect) yes, use "auto" in BIOS HDD settings. to support drives >8Gb use 2.2.6 or latest RELEASE. /// cheers, og. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message