Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:03:19 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120110319.P58333@echunga.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001120105948.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:59:48AM %2B1030 References: <20001120105211.O58333@echunga.lemis.com> <XFMail.001120105948.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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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
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