From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Aug 21 23:13:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEF337B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA57115; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:13:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA01743; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:13:31 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008220613.AAA01743@harmony.village.org> To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: ultra 160 and performance Cc: oneiros , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:45:03 EDT." References: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:13:31 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message Chuck Robey writes: : Intel forum, but if anyone knows any secret mantras, I'm suddenly feeling : somewhat religious .... fdisk -s the disk on a machine that can read it and make sure that the partitions end on hard head boundaries. There is a bug in FreeBSD, introduced recently (just before 4.1R) that causes it to write somewhat bogus partition tables that some bioses just hate to boot. Others boot them just fine. Yes, patches are being reviewed right now, and should hit the tree soonish. Just a thought. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message