Re: 200GB IDE disk on old system
- From: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:35:21 +0000 (UTC)
Helmut Schneider <jumper99@xxxxxx> schrieb:
Wilhelm B. Kloke (wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
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?
What mainboard do you have? My good old P55T2P4(?) had no problems with big
disks after a BIOS update.
It is an Epox Socket 7 board (MVG3 or so). On the Epox site it is not listed
anymore, so a BIOS update is not possible without finding some other source.
I don't need to boot from this disk, so, lastly it is of little relevance
what the BIOS thinks. The problem is that I need a way to ignore the
wrong information from BIOS. I could even consider using GPT partitions on
the disk (which I have to learn about anyway, as I want to netboot my
MacMini to FreeBSD some day). But, "gpt create" also uses the wrong
BIOS data.
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