Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:23:51 +0200 From: swhite@gov.za To: Chris Howells <lists@chrishowells.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3F263D27.23659.3876F5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200307281634.39887.lists@chrishowells.co.uk>
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On 28 Jul 2003 at 16:34, Chris Howells wrote:
> I seem to recall that the trick with large hard disks and old BIOSes is to
> disable the drive in the BIOS and let the OS detect the disk itself... is
> this the case with FreeBSD as well?
That's what I did with a 40GB and a 30GB IDE in a '486 running FreeBSD
4.3-RELEASE a while back. The boot drive is a 1GB on a SCSI controller.
Worked like a charm. Worked so well, in fact, I did the same thing when I
eventually upgraded the motherboard to a P1-120 in March this year.
I was quite sad that I could no longer say I had a '486 with 70GB storage
inside... :)
Regards,
- Sean.
--
"bortaS bIr jablu'DI'reH QaQqu' nay'."
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