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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:26:32 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Glendon Gross <gross@clones.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) 
Message-ID:  <200012150626.XAA66763@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:15:44 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.20.0012142113360.9249-100000@mail.clones.com> 
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0012142113360.9249-100000@mail.clones.com>  

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.20.0012142113360.9249-100000@mail.clones.com> Glendon Gross writes:
: Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they
: don't recognize the dedicated format?

One could say that, however the fake disk label for dedicated disks is
a problem.  The BIOS shouldn't know about partitions, but many do.
There's a older Dell machine at work that I'm fighting over this issue
right now :-(.

Warner


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