Big (> 137GB) Drive Support

[Bill Nash]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Just for purposes of reference, how old was this computer that would flat
> refuse to boot the 120 GB hard drive?  Do you know any particular reason why
> this happened?  Which BIOS did it run?  I have a late-1997 to early-1998
> ventage machine on which I will be installing RH 8.0 soon, and I'd like to
> have an idea what I'll be able to get away with; again, nothing fancy like
> dual-booting...
>

	My roommate went through this just the other day with a new 120GB
in his FreeBSD box. The bulk of his pain went away after flashing his BIOS
to a more current rev that supported the larger drive. The drive's online
now and we're filling it as fast as we can. =)

- billn