Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD

From: Jeff Love (jl_at_burghcom.com)
Date: 07/28/03

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To: Chris Howells <lists@chrishowells.co.uk>

    Chris,
    This may not be for this forum, but I'll answer anyway.
    What you may need is a drive overlay provided by the hard drive
    manufacturer. With this in place, even though the BIOS sees the drive as
    smaller, the OS sees it at full size.
    Completely disabling the drive in the BIOS would most likely have the
    drive not show up in the OS.

    Hope this helps,

    Jeff Love
    Burgh Gaming

    Chris Howells wrote:

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    >Hi,
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    >I'd like to put a 60GB hard disk into Gateway 2000 Pentium 150 (from '96 or
    >'97 or so I think) running FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE.
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    >Can anybody tell me how successful this is likely to be? Will I be able to use
    >the full capacity of the drive?
    >
    >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?
    >
    >Thanks.
    >
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