Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:44:31 -0400 From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please Message-ID: <000d01bfe82a$3ee79ca0$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> In-Reply-To: <015d01b42777$2dbe8c60$c4ebfea9@josh>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Paetzel [mailto:jpaetzel@hutchtel.net] > Sent: Friday, January 12, 1990 3:04 PM > To: Clarence Brown; 'Bill' > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> > To: "'Bill'" <bwoods2@uswest.net> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:52 PM > Subject: RE: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:53 PM > > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: FreeBSD on a REAL OLD system help please > > > > > > > > > I have been given a REAL OLD P100 w/32 megs memory, so I > > > think cool, small > > > home lan mail server. Well I happen to have this 10gig ide > > > hanging around, > > > that I am not useing,(eveyrthing else I have is SCSI) so I pop it > > in, > > > change BIOS to autodetect the HD and proceed to HD install. > > > The partition > > > scheme is / is 400, /var is 2gig, /usr is 7gig and rest > swap. Well, > > > anyway, the ftp install goes fine , I goto reboot and NADA, > > > it starts to > > > boot and the spinner just stops.......wont boot for crap. > > > > > > I am almost positive its the 10 gig HD in it thaqts causing the > > > problem. Like I said its a old system, doesnt even have pci > > > slots. I took > > > a look in BIOS tyo see if I could set the HD to LBA, no such luck. > > > > > > Now, I do have some software that I got with the drive, > to make old > > > systems see large drives, Maxtor HD Max or something, but I > > > am almost sure > > > that wont work with freebsd. > > > > > > So, any gurus have any suggestions for me on how to get this > > > to work... > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > I had similar problems with an old 486-50 which wouldn't work right > > with the Large IDE drive I was trying to install. I solved > the problem > > by installing a special bios extension board in an ISA slot, which > > provided bios extensions to address large hard drives. I picked the > > board up for about $20 - $30 at Office Depot or CompUSA (I don't > > remember it's been a while). After that the system understood how to > > deal with large hard drives and I had no more problems. > > > > I think that you are talking about is an IDE controller. > Comp USA has them > here for $19.99. No, it was NOT an IDE controller, at least not completely. The circuit board had unpopulated chips and connectors which if stuffed with parts, would have resulted in an IDE controller. About the only thing on this board was some isa bus logic, and a bios chip. On boot the bios extensions which tell the system how to handle large hard drives are loaded from this board. Originally the motherboard (built in ide) would not even talk with drives over something like 500 meg. It's been a while, but from what I remember, the motherboard would NOT EVEN boot when I connected my "Large" 2Gig ;) drive. This little bios extension board fixed that. > I find it interesting that this system is > a Pentium with > no PCI slots. What kind of machine is it? Are you asking me what kind of machine yours is, or mine? Yours I don't know, but pentium with no PCI must have been a very early / low cost one. Mine is just a clone with a 486/50 and motherboard of uncertain mfg. Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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