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Date:      Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:20:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca (David Gilbert), fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: i386/4948: SCSI don't boot.
Message-ID:  <199711071520.KAA03502@repeat.pci.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19971107085533.AG15207@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <199711052330.PAA18225@hub.freebsd.org> <19971106231933.54562@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199711070220.VAA12412@repeat.pci.on.ca> <19971107085533.AG15207@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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>>>>> "J" == J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:

J> As David Gilbert wrote:
>> Since there are a number of devices that require fdisk partitions
>> (a number of BIOS's require them as do newer 2940's), it would seem
>> that this is really an area that should be addressed.

J> Even Adaptec?  That's stupid of them.  People, send bug reports to
J> your BIOS vendors.  By now, i've only seen it on HP systems
J> (Netserver and Vectra), but they ship with a hacked BIOS anyway.

J> Btw., BSD/OS must suffer the same problems, they also know a mode
J> that's comparable to our DD mode (and i was planning to make our
J> kernel recognize their drives).

	6-8 months ago, I came across a 2940UW that wouldn't boot
BSD/OS because of this problem.  According to BSDI, this was known to
be the new standard for 2940's.

Dave.

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