mlsstl;229569 Wrote: > You received good advice above, but there is one other thing to check > before buying a hard drive. The BIOS of older machines may not support > as large a hard drive as you wish to buy. It would be worth checking > how large a drive your BIOS will support beforehand. > > Also, depending on the make of PC/motherboard, a BIOS update may be > available that would help in this area. > > No sense in spending money to buy a 300 or 500 GB hard drive only to > find out after the fact that your motherboard won't support it.
Yea, this could be a problem, but is easy to work around. For one Linux mostly ignores the BIOS disk parameters, I don't know about FreeBSD/FreeNAS. The other option is to go with a SATA card/drive. The SATA cards BIOS will take care of the disk. You don't need an expensive SATA card either, any cheap $20 one from newegg will do. I've used several of this board with no issues: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020 -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38646 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
