New IDE drive in old PC

[Chuck Swiger]

Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote:
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>>> 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.
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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