Large hard disk support in FreeBSD

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

I'd like to put a 60GB hard disk into Gateway 2000 Pentium 150 (from '96 or 
'97 or so I think) running FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE.

Can anybody tell me how successful this is likely to be? Will I be able to use 
the full capacity of the drive?

I seem to recall that the trick with large hard disks and old BIOSes is to 
disable the drive in the BIOS and let the OS detect the disk itself... is 
this the case with FreeBSD as well?

Thanks.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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