Chris Whitehouse wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote:
[ ... ]
The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do
I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed?
I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII
500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I
try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and
bsdlabelled it as 250GB without problem using FBSD6.
[ ... ]
FreeBSD will use LBA addressing modes, even if your BIOS does not support it.
However, to access a drive above 137GB, your hardware needs to support 48-bit LBA.
However, you can get a PCI ATA controller to do the job which is cheap and
convenient, or simply update your MB to something newer...
--
-Chuck
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