Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:31:15 -0700 From: Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Now here's something for FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: <41130993.20104@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20040805202556.GA1712@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <4111FE83.9090602@pacbell.net> <20040805202556.GA1712@momo.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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At about the time of 08/05/2004 13:25, Szilveszter Adam stated the following: > Hello Daniel, > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:31:47AM -0700, Daniel Rudy wrote: > >>FreeBSD does it again. > > > <...> > > Not to ruin your joy over a working hw setup, but in fact pretty much > all decent PC OSs these days (the list is long, but does *not* include > any version of DOS, for example) can do what FreeBSD did in this case > just fine. The BIOS is no longer used by the OS to access the disk, but > the BIOS needs to recognize the drive at least in part in order to be > able to boot the OS from it (obviously). So, the lesson to take home > here is this: unless you want to boot from a disk, you pretty much do > not have to worry about the BIOS these days using eg FreeBSD. This does > not include broken BIOS implementations, that actually crash and refuse > to boot with an overly large drive even if the type is set to NONE. (I > have seen such thing unfortunately) Luckily, there is almost always a > last BIOS update even for older boards from sometime around 1999 because > of the Y2K madness, and these usually include support for larger drives > as well. > This wasn't the boot drive. The 80GB HD is for data storage only. It's mounted as /space. The boot drive is a 13.6GB drive. I have the lastest BIOS from the manufacturer and it does not support harddisks beyond 32GB even though the hardware supports the max of 137GB. If I had to, I have a Promise Ultra133TX or something or another that FreeBSD does recongize if setting the BIOS to none didn't work. >>Kudos to the FreeBSD development teams. > > > Indeed. -- Daniel Rudy
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