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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 1.6G drives
Date: 20 Jul 1996 03:42:07 +0100
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Patrick Sonnek (psonnek@skypoint.com) wrote:
: I am looking at purchasing a second hard drive. I've been seeing several
: posts concerning problems with have a drive large than 1G is it possible
: to partition the drive into 2 smaller file systems, and have it work? or
: would I be better off just finding a nice small 850M drive for my second
: drive.
There's no problems with 1.6G disks that aren't there with 850M ones. The
only disk considerations are:
Keep your disk geometry consistent between all OSs on that disk (the
BIOS geometry is usually a good start unless it doesn't understand
the whole of your disk).
You HAVE to have the first FreeBSD partition (the bootable one) on a
physical bit of a disk that the BIOS can see.
If your BIOS only groks 1Gb disks, that may be a reason for thinking that
getting <1Gb is good, *but* it's not true. You just need a bit of patience
- read this group a bit - the information flys about the place now and again.
In short, get a big disk and ask questions if you can't get it to work. It
*will* work though - your last resort is always to dedicate it to FreeBSD!
My laptop only understands 504Mb disks, I have a 300Mb DOS partition and a
780Mb FreeBSD "slice" :-)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....