From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 18:56:53 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA03116 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:56:53 -0700 Received: from mailhost1.primenet.com (mailhost1.primenet.com [198.68.32.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03111 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:56:48 -0700 Received: from usr3.primenet.com (root@usr3.primenet.com [198.68.32.13]) by mailhost1.primenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA16455 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:57:38 GMT Received: from ip239.phx.primenet.com (ip239.phx.primenet.com [198.68.46.239]) by usr3.primenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05713 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:56:30 -0700 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 18:56:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199510060156.SAA05713@usr3.primenet.com> X-Sender: markem@mailhost.primenet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: markem@primenet.com (Mark Monninger) Subject: Big IDE Drives Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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