Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-30 Thread dgmm
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:57, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > 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

RE: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Gayn Winters
> On Behalf Of Gayn Winters > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 10:04 AM > > On Behalf Of RW > > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:18 AM > > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 moth

RE: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Gayn Winters
> On Behalf Of RW > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 9:18 AM > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > > > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 ID

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 PII

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anythin

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-29 Thread RW
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:14, Robert Slade wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to > > only use 32MB so it can be booted from since t

Re: New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: > I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. > The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to > only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC > (the latest and greatest) can't deal with an

New IDE drive in old PC

2005-12-27 Thread Robert Ames
I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me