[BUGS] SATA and old BIOSes

[Bernie Maier]

jonathan michaels:

> from what i have seen of clients hardware the ide thingies work
> much teh same way as the scsi system works .. once you can boot
> off of teh array (the first 1024 cylinders) then leave teh rest
> of teh array as a big partion for freebsd to take car off.

Aaah, yes, I should have been clearer.  I will be using the big SATA
drives simply as file server bulk storage.  I still intend to keep my
smaller IDE disks for the boot partition, the OS and the normal works
(i.e. / /boot /usr /var /tmp won't be on the SATA drives).

> hope this makes sence, is followable, not a good day .. grr.

Despite all my trimming, yes that all made good sense.  I would have
said you are quite lucid today, actually.  ;-)

I just wanted to be sure the BIOS won't bite me, because I have already
sunk too much time and money into getting that crappy standalone NAS
box working (I naively assumed it would be *easier* than a complete DIY
job).

Cheers,

    Bernie