Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:27:31 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hard disk > .5MB Message-ID: <199602150757.SAA21336@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199602150656.WAA14126@flamingo.cs.ucla.edu> from "roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU" at Feb 14, 96 10:56:23 pm
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roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU stands accused of saying: > > BIOS on my motherboard does not support IDE hard drives larger than 500MB. > Will freebsd let me use 1.6 GB IDE drive, and if yes how to go about > installing it under freebsd? Set the BIOS parameters so that at least the #heads/sectors values are correct, then make sure the FreeBSD slice editor knows the correct numbers when you're installing. (This assumes that you're only putting FreeBSD on the system) > roizen@cs.ucla.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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