Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:14:10 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large IDE drives and older BIOS? Message-ID: <20020412101410.GA22751@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <3199641010.1018609498@[10.100.16.124]> References: <3199641010.1018609498@[10.100.16.124]>
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 11:04:58AM +0200, Eivind Olsen wrote: > 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? Larger than any you can buy today. I think the largest disks FreeBSD can handle are 1TB. This does not depend on the BIOS. The BIOS can limit what size disks you can boot from, but once FreeBSD is started the BIOS is out of the picture. > > 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. It will probably work but the only way to be sure is to try it. > > 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. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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