Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:57:19 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New IDE drive in old PC Message-ID: <43B4237F.4070606@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <BAY114-F11182790EDEB51D8CD3EDBC9370@phx.gbl> <1135754041.21128.18.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > >>I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. >>The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to >>only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC >>(the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. >>This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. >>However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question >>is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and >>attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 >>GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. >>The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do >>I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and bsdlabelled it as 250GB without problem using FBSD6. I think if I could have booted there would have been no problem with the disk on the IDE chain as FBSD sees disks directly not through the BIOS (or so I understand). I can test on a P5AB if you want but it will take a day or two. Chris
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