Re: [FreeBSD 5.1] Large hard disks vs old BIOS (Thanks!)

From: Steven Maesslein (nobody_at_nowhere.invalid)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:24:34 +0200

On 29 Oct 2004 13:00:28 GMT, Jehannes coughed into
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and left this in
<Xns959198B2C8028johnbeevernl@194.109.133.133>:

> Thank you for your stimulating replies. I plan to add a big disk to
> an existing FreeBSD installation on an 8 gig disk. Running low on space..
> Any special caveats, aside from the installation guide in the FreeBSD
> handbook?

One of the things Ch. 16 of the handbook says is "install the drive in
the computer following the instructions of the computer, controller, and
drive manufacturer."

Assuming you're planning on setting up an IDE drive, you have to make
sure that the controller and the disk itself both support at least one
IDE mode in common. Not that long ago I saw someone install an archaic
PIO3 drive in a machine with a mobo that only did PIO4 and upwards, and
not understand why it didn't work.

Given that the machine has an 8GB drive I think it's safe to assume that
it does UDMA-33, and most new disks are still able to run at that speed.
Just make sure of it, that's all :) 

-- 
Steve
Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

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