Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:56:30 -0700 From: markem@primenet.com (Mark Monninger) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Big IDE Drives Message-ID: <199510060156.SAA05713@usr3.primenet.com>
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Sorry if this is a duplicate but I think I screwed up the first time. I recently purchased a 1.2G IDE drive, planning to partition it between Windoze and FreeBSD. I have BSD running off a partition of a 420M drive now with no problems. Since my disk controller, which uses a WD chip, won't handle drives > 500Mb or so, I also purchased a card which I believe has a BIOS extension that handles > 500Mb drives. OK...the drive works fine with DOS/Windoze but now FreeBSD won't boot at all from the 420Mb drive. It just sits there...no nuthin. If I remove the BIOS card it works fine. Of course, then the 1.2G drive isn't happy. Will FreeBSD work with LBA drives? Am I just SOL with the big drive? I know...I shoulda went with SCSI but it's a lot more $$. I can get a controller board that handles the big drive but I don't know if it will work either. I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5, I believe. I found an old 386bsd boot floppy from a while back and it boots OK with the BIOS board. Hmm...guess I could go back to 386bsd...I think I still have all the disks... Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks... Mark
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