Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:18:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net> Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <3A1897EB.39DAE37B@urx.com> References: <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > : At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > : stuck with it. > > I strongly support this. It has burned me on several machines. It burned me on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 1999 and I won't touch it any more. If you want to move a disk to a new system, there isn't any guarantee that it will boot if any of the HD's are DD. The system doesn't even get to the boot process but hangs when the bios is dealing with the drive right after if finished counting memory. When it hangs at this point in the startup it is really rough to add a proper mbr back on the disk. Kent > > I don't think that anyone will remove it from the kernel... > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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