Chris Howells wrote (on Jul 29): > > (3) The ATA controller built into your motherboard may not support larger > > disk addressing, although I think that shouldn't be a problem with > > 60GB. If you try to use a drive larger than addressable using the ATA > > controller, you may want to pick up a cheap PCI ATA controller (or get > > the "kit" version of the drive that has a new controller). > > Right, sounds like a good idea. Maybe a good idea anyway from a performance > point of view since the board will support only UDMA 33 (is that the name for > it?) whereas the new drive is meant to support UDMA 100. Hopefully the P150 > processor can keep up :)
FWIW, an ATA controller on a PCI card may have it's own BIOS gizmo that will boot for you. I recently did this when I moved en masse from an old (dieing) 80gb drive to a 200gb drive and where my m/b didn't support the extended block addressing. I disabled the m/b BIOS drive probes and it boots fine from the promise card. Chris. -- == [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
