From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 16:36:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B984B37B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:36:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAK0XJS59982; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:03:19 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:03:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa , Warner Losh Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:59:48AM +1030 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 20 November 2000 at 10:59:48 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 20-Nov-00 Greg Lehey wrote: >>> No it isn't bogus. You can't boot off a DD disk on some machines >>> because the MBR is too bogus for the BIOS to cope with. >> So you put a Microsoft partition table on the boot disk. That doesn't >> mean you need it on the other disks. > > It is NOT a 'MS partition table'. > > It doesn't infect your computer with evil and FreeBSD MS viruses or > anything.. Correct. I didn't say it did. >>> The problem with DD is that we put a bogus MBR onto the disk. All >>> that is necessary to fix it would be to put a non-bgous MBR onto the >>> disk. >> Right, for those cases where it's needed. More specifically, we need >> to now how non-bogus it needs to be. > > Why is DD ever _needed_? Because Microsoft partition tables waste space. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message