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| Subject: | Re: 200GB IDE disk on old system |
| Poster: | Wilhelm B. Kloke |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:35:21 +0000 (UTC) |
| Related Postings: | 1 2 3 4 5 |
Helmut Schneider schrieb:
> Wilhelm B. Kloke (wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
>> I want to put a 200GB into my old AMD K6 system. The BIOS does not support
>> more than 32GB. Is there a way to persuade FreeBSD to accept the
>> real disk size?
>
> What mainboard do you have? My good old P55T2P4(?) had no problems with big
> disks after a BIOS update.
It is an Epox Socket 7 board (MVG3 or so). On the Epox site it is not listed
anymore, so a BIOS update is not possible without finding some other source.
I don't need to boot from this disk, so, lastly it is of little relevance
what the BIOS thinks. The problem is that I need a way to ignore the
wrong information from BIOS. I could even consider using GPT partitions on
the disk (which I have to learn about anyway, as I want to netboot my
MacMini to FreeBSD some day). But, "gpt create" also uses the wrong
BIOS data.
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Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke
Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257
PGP: http://vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de/~wb/mypublic.key
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