From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 16 03:01:13 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA17765 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 03:01:13 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA17756 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 03:01:10 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA28534; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:03:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508161033.UAA28534@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine To: hsu@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Jeffrey Hsu) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 20:03:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508160919.CAA16179@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Aug 16, 95 02:19:21 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1457 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jeffrey Hsu stands accused of saying: > Well, I'm totally bummed that my Microplis 2217 just died 2 days ago 8( Consolation. If it's any comfort, I recently did a panic upgrade to 2.0.5 for a local ISP whose bootdisk (Seagate ST6550A) went farming. In the space of less than three hours it scored _every_ face on all three platters _except_ the top one. (The servo surface looked like an etch-a-sketch 8) > and I have yet to recover. It was my boot drive, my FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 > system, as well as my home directory, which hasn't been back up > for weeks since FreeBSD 2.0 dump doesn't like converted FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 > partitions. I'm totally bummed. Oh well, I just had to get that off This is not necessarily true. I've mounted 1.1.5.1 partitions under 2.0 and 2.0.5 with no trouble. You have to restore an alternate masterblock going back, as 1.1.5.1 doesn't grok what 2+ does to it. > my chest. I'm totally bummed. I'm reduced to typing this message on my > sister's DOS pc with the modem I moved over from my non-bootable machine. FWIW, *hug* > Jeffrey -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[