Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:47:27 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some serious gripes about `fdisk' and also `booteasy'. Message-ID: <19991017094727.B319@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910162031250.6729-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> References: <7377.940121847@monkeys.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910162031250.6729-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 08:35:11PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> >
> > This had bitten me twice now.
> >
> > Will whoever is supporting/maintaining the `fdisk' program *PLEASE* fix it
> > so that it displays some sort of a warning when the user is just about to
> > partition a SCSI drive for which the on/off status of BIOS address trans-
> > lation (for disks larger than 1GB) _cannot_ be automatically and properly
> > determined by fdisk itself?
>
> One piece of advice often given is to put a dos partition on the disk
> (it can be deleted during install if wish) to assist with determining
> the correct geometry. I've installed FreeBSD on probably a close to
> a dozen scsi hard drives and never had this problem. I didn't think
> bios address translation was relevant for scsi drives, in any case.
>
Neither did I. That's the main reason I moved to all-SCSI, it "just
works", especially with *nix. None of these "only 4 devices", "1024
cyls/504MB/LBA", "can't have a CD as primary slave with a disk on
secondary master" problems that IDE seems to be plagued with. I'd
be interested in knowing the "truth" about this for future reference.
> Try the dos partition.
>
> Annelise
> >
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