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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Anything to watch out for re: > 2.1gig EIDE?
Date: 2 Apr 1997 15:07:22 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3341C3DB.7838@ultranet.com>,
"Michael C. Cambria" <cambria@ultranet.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Is there anything to watch out for when using an EIDE disk
> which has greater than 2.1 gig (greater than 4096 cyls)?
>
> I'm using a P/I P55TP4XE with Award Bios 0202 (4.51PG).
> This BIOS says I can use up to 8GB EIDE disks via the
> builtin controller on the MB. I can also boot of the CDROM.
> The disk (Western Digital 22100) auto-detects fine, and
> is set to LBA (as is the 1gig EIDE that works today.)
> I also have a PCI 2940 and a 1 gig Seagate disk off it as
> well as a 4x CDROM. (I bought SCSI only til I got married!)
>
> Thanks for any suggestions, pointers etc.
>
> MikeC
The only practical limitation is that you must have all of
your 'a' logical partition where it can be read by the BIOS,
and you must boot from the first FreeBSD physical partition
on a given disk.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !