Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 18:33:52 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large drives, old BIOS, IDE Controllers Message-ID: <199808141833.SAA02264@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:08:48 %2B1200." <199808150108.NAA27823@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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> I've been talking to my computer store (which doesn't know much about > Unix) and searching the mail archives. I think I've found my solution. > > The "problem" is my machine is a 486/dx2 something. I'm installed a 5G > drive. The shop figured I might not be able to use this drive as the BIOS > won't handle more than the first 512M of the drive. Yet, what I've just > read in the mail archives is that FreeBSD doesn't use the BIOS. If so, my > job is easy. It needs the BIOS to boot. As long as you can get at the FreeBSD root filesystem, you'll be OK. > At present, the machine has a CD-ROM and a 330M drive. Both are IDE and > are running off the I/O board. I'm about to add a 5G drive. Problem: > there's only 1 IDE connecter on my i/o board and none on the mother board. > And I can't buy an i/board with two IDE connecters. None are available > to be had. You'll have to find one. Try a secondhand (junk) store; there are lots of them still around. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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