From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 8:48:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.radzinschi.com (pcp284510pcs.owngsm01.md.comcast.net [68.54.240.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693B937B416 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marco@localhost.radzinschi.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.radzinschi.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CFmC536038; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:48:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marco@radzinschi.com) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:48:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Marco Radzinschi To: Eivind Olsen Cc: Subject: Re: Large IDE drives and older BIOS? In-Reply-To: <3199641010.1018609498@[10.100.16.124]> Message-ID: <20020412114556.F36021-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 You will have no problem with a 120 GB drive if it is not used to boot from. If you must boot from it, you can make the / and /boot partitions within the first 512 MB, or 8.4 GB, depending on what your BIOS limit is. Most BIOS's after 1994 can boot from within 8.4 GB, and really old ones can't boot after 512 MB. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -- Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, 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? > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message