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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

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