From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 14:36:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA12685 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.northernnet.com (northernnet.com [206.24.45.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA12678 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lizard (trf-5.dialup.northernnet.com [208.146.22.235]) by server.northernnet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id QAA13953; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:36:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.16.19970917163848.0aaf49a2@206.24.45.1> X-Sender: poker2@206.24.45.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (16) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:38:48 -0500 To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Shawn Leas Subject: Re: FreeBSD w/ Older bios & hard drives greater than 500meg.. In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970917133725.006f22fc@midwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 01:37 PM 9/17/97 -0500, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >One more quick qeuestion, > My current BSD box is a 486/66 with an older bios. I was able to salvage >a 1 gig drive from another system and I'd like to use it in this older >computer, but I'm affaid the bios is pretty old, and probably only supports >drives under 500 meg, is there a work around for this? Insulting... FreeBSD doesn't rely on the BIOS as MicroShaft (over)DOS does. FreeBSD will handle your drive, and recognize its TRUE geometry, and use it. Win95 still needs the BIOS, WinNT doesn't, Linux doesn't, and FreeBSD doesn't. (Well, at least to USE the disk, maybe to ID the disk.) >Something like E-Zdrive for dos, but for FreeBSD? Don't mean to be rude.. Just give the guys more credit!!! (All sarcasm meant solely in fun, no insult intended) Shawn