Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:26:06 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HDD > 8.4 GB Message-ID: <20020324192138.J84925-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <3C9E6449.9CC4D4E3@cs.umu.se>
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For a non-Unix operating system, any ISA IDE controller dated after 1994 should allow you to do this. I have a cheap one from 1997 which I am sure supports this, but FreeBSD will not recognize it. If you are going to install *BSD or Linux on that 486, then you don't need a new controller. All you have to do is either not make the big disk the boot drive, or make sure the root partition is in the first 8.4 GB. I can't imagine anyone needing a larger boot partition, unless one is going to make one large root partition. Once the BIOS boots *BSD or Linux, the operating system will no longer use the BIOS, and will be able to use the entire disk. The only caveat is that you will manually have to tell the OS the disk drive geometry, so that it does not use what the BIOS gives it, which will obviously be wrong. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi! > > This is not a FreeBSD-related question, but as people here seems to > know a lot about computers and hardware I give it a try: > > Do anyone know if there exist a HDD controller card for the ISA bus > that allows me to put a HDD > 8.4 GB in my old 486? > > Best regards, > Paul > > 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
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