Re: 200GB IDE disk on old system
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:32:42 +0000, Wilhelm B. Kloke 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?
I looked into the fdisk manpage. The only stuff I
found there does not seem relevant like CHS parameters.
Although the box my drives are in now is different, when I set it up it
was an old AMD K6/2-450. I used a 40GB drive as the boot drive,
supposedly the most the BIOS could recognise. I added 120GB and 300GB
drives one at a time as needed/acquired. My solution was to set the BIOS
to "NONE" for those drives and let FreeNSD find them itself.
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DaveG
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt
up after being drunk all night." Isaac Asimov
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