From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 17 1:47:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A468014FB6 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 01:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 889 invoked from network); 17 Oct 1999 08:47:35 -0000 Received: from userak63.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.134.37) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 1999 08:47:35 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA00659; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:47:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 09:47:27 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Annelise Anderson Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some serious gripes about `fdisk' and also `booteasy'. Message-ID: <19991017094727.B319@marder-1> References: <7377.940121847@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message