From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 11:33:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB9037B407; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:33:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vorbis.noc.easynet.net (vorbis.noc.easynet.net [195.40.1.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3C243F93; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrisy@vorbis.noc.easynet.net) Received: from chrisy by vorbis.noc.easynet.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 19hZIJ-000G8F-00; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:33:55 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:33:55 +0100 From: Chris Luke To: Chris Howells Message-ID: <20030729183355.GA61872@flix.net> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Luke , Chris Howells , Robert Watson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <200307291928.56949.howells@kde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307291928.56949.howells@kde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The Flirble Internet Exchange X-URL: http://www.flix.net/ X-FTP: ftp://ftp.flirble.org/ Sender: Chris Luke cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:33:57 -0000 Chris Howells wrote (on Jul 29): > > (3) The ATA controller built into your motherboard may not support larger > > disk addressing, although I think that shouldn't be a problem with > > 60GB. If you try to use a drive larger than addressable using the ATA > > controller, you may want to pick up a cheap PCI ATA controller (or get > > the "kit" version of the drive that has a new controller). > > Right, sounds like a good idea. Maybe a good idea anyway from a performance > point of view since the board will support only UDMA 33 (is that the name for > it?) whereas the new drive is meant to support UDMA 100. Hopefully the P150 > processor can keep up :) FWIW, an ATA controller on a PCI card may have it's own BIOS gizmo that will boot for you. I recently did this when I moved en masse from an old (dieing) 80gb drive to a 200gb drive and where my m/b didn't support the extended block addressing. I disabled the m/b BIOS drive probes and it boots fine from the promise card. Chris. -- == chrisy@flix.net