From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 23:55:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA18264 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:55:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18259 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 23:55:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA21336; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:27:32 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602150757.SAA21336@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: hard disk > .5MB To: roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 18:27:31 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602150656.WAA14126@flamingo.cs.ucla.edu> from "roizen@CS.UCLA.EDU" at Feb 14, 96 10:56:23 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[