I have a P90 that suffered from the same problem. Putting an old 540MB
disk as the primary and the larger, newer disk as the secondary allowed me
to use that large disk. YMMV.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Claudio Leite wrote:

> 	I never paid attention on the subject of using big (>540M) hd's on
> older machines without LBA support. I'm getting a 8.4GB EIDE drive for a
> Pentium 60 without any LBA or large disk support in the BIOS. How can I
> boot NetBSD on this box? I don't want to settle for floppy disk boot, even
> though the machine is up most of the time and reboots infrequently. The
> drive will be 100% NetBSD, no other systems will be installed.