From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 00:23:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F40137B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gov.za (ns2.gov.za [163.195.1.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB6843F75 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:23:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swhite@gov.za) Received: from [10.184.188.82] (helo=skw) by gov.za with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 19hOoh-0007Cm-00; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:22:39 +0200 From: swhite@gov.za Organization: SITA: W/Cape To: Chris Howells Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:23:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F263D27.23659.3876F5@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <200307281634.39887.lists@chrishowells.co.uk> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: swhite@gov.za List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:23:16 -0000 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'."