Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:19:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Chris Parry <laotzu@juniper.net> Cc: freebsd-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@nac.net Subject: RE: DPT support binaries - How to Setup Message-ID: <XFMail.980620191953.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980619175905.7576C-100000@leaf.juniper.net>
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On 20-Jun-98 Chris Parry wrote: > > Alex, thanks for the notes, I have my own opinions there, but they aren't > really relavent for this. My assumption is I need to have a DOS bootable > partition somewhere with the storage management software on it (or > perhaps > I could get away with doing it from floppy), then setup my RAID-1 device, > which will then simply appear as /dev/sd0 from the FreeBSD side of > things. > > Is this correct? Yup. I typically have slice (DOS partition) 1 as a small (64MB or less) DOS partition. I have customers who do not want to pay the DOS royalties, nor do they want to violate federal copyright laws by installing DOS on a disk, when it will practically never be used. These people choose to do the work from floppy. I use IBM PC-DOS, so as to minimize the payment to M$. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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