From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 14 23:28:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 23:28:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF9B37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 85B8E6AB68; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:58:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:58:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Glendon Gross , Warner Losh , Sam Zamarripa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001215175842.B91832@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mike@argos.org on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:20:40AM -0500 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 Friday, 15 December 2000 at 2:20:40 -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > >> Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they >> don't recognize the dedicated format? > > There are times when the politically-correct of the world use the term > "proprietary" when they actually mean "dumb" or "really badly > designed". But yes, that's what it means... :) To be fair, the dedicated fake partition table format is a hack. It's too difficult to figure out what the real geometry is, so it invents one which should "do the job". Some BIOSes check the table and find it wanting. It's a grey area. 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