200GB IDE disk on old system

From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:32:42 +0000 (UTC)

I want to put a 200GB into my old AMD K6 system. The BIOS does not support
more than 32GB. Is there a way to persuade FreeBSD to accept the
real disk size?

I looked into the fdisk manpage. The only stuff I
found there does not seem relevant like CHS parameters.
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