Re: Large hard disk support in FreeBSD

From: Chris Luke (chrisy_at_flix.net)
Date: 07/29/03

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:33:55 +0100
To: Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>

    Chris Howells wrote (on Jul 29):
    > > (3) The ATA controller built into your motherboard may not support larger
    > > disk addressing, although I think that shouldn't be a problem with
    > > 60GB. If you try to use a drive larger than addressable using the ATA
    > > controller, you may want to pick up a cheap PCI ATA controller (or get
    > > the "kit" version of the drive that has a new controller).
    >
    > Right, sounds like a good idea. Maybe a good idea anyway from a performance
    > point of view since the board will support only UDMA 33 (is that the name for
    > it?) whereas the new drive is meant to support UDMA 100. Hopefully the P150
    > processor can keep up :)

    FWIW, an ATA controller on a PCI card may have it's own BIOS gizmo that will
    boot for you. I recently did this when I moved en masse from an old (dieing)
    80gb drive to a 200gb drive and where my m/b didn't support the extended
    block addressing. I disabled the m/b BIOS drive probes and it boots fine
    from the promise card.

    Chris. 

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== chrisy@flix.net
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