Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 12:26:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Rico Pajarola <pajarola@cybertime.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Message-ID: <199902072026.MAA07134@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:04:30 %2B0100." <3.0.32.19990207170425.0092c9e0@shrike.overmind.ch>
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> >Interesting, all these "well known" names (Compaq, HP, Siemens) seem to have > >problems with it... ... > So if it doesn't work, it's not because DD is a bad (or wrong) thing, but Even though it is a bad (and wrong) thing. > the BIOS checks for something it just should not check (ie it should only > look at the signature on the master boot record, and if it is ok, it should > load it without any further tests). This is actually exactly the problem; they *do* read the MBR, and they *do* trust it, and because the DD MBR *is* broken, these BIOSsen fail. > Sorry if this was a bit too loud, but I just don't want to see DD go away. It will go away as soon as someone puts on their toxic-waste suit and wades into libdisk to fix its geometry-extraction code. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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