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Subject: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD
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Hi,

I'd like to put a 60GB hard disk into Gateway 2000 Pentium 150 (from '96 or=
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'97 or so I think) running FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE.

Can anybody tell me how successful this is likely to be? Will I be able to =
use=20
the full capacity of the drive?

I seem to recall that the trick with large hard disks and old BIOSes is to=
=20
disable the drive in the BIOS and let the OS detect the disk itself... is=20
this the case with FreeBSD as well?

Thanks.

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