[BUGS] SATA and old BIOSes

[Peter Jeremy]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:37:26PM +1100, Bernie Maier wrote:
>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).

In which case, your best bet is to find a SATA controller that lets
you disable the BIOS in it.  The controller BIOS is only needed for
booting - *BSD ignores it.

Just watch out for the cr*p SATA chipsets floating around.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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