From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 2:14:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from im10.oke.online.no (im10.osl.ttyl.com [148.122.208.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED5737B404 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 02:14:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.100.16.124] ([193.212.240.202]) by fep1.mta.online.no (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20020412090924.DVGM18748.fep1.mta.online.no@[10.100.16.124]> for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:09:24 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:04:58 +0200 From: Eivind Olsen To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Large IDE drives and older BIOS? Message-ID: <3199641010.1018609498@[10.100.16.124]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.0b4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. How large IDE drives can FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE support? And is this limit derived from the underlying BIOS of the computer or not? I have a 3-year old IBM computer, and I doubt its BIOS will handle disks larger than 30-40GB or so, and I might be interested in using one of the new 120GB disks if possible. Also, are there limitations to the size of the slices or partitions I can create? I've tried to look for this information in the man-pages and in the Handbook, but I couldn't find information about this. So if anyone can point me in the right direction (or just tell it to me straight away. ;) I'd be grateful. -- Eivind Olsen eivind@aminor.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message