From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 23 3:17:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4483037B4E5 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA42117; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:16:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eANBGvw62306; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:16:56 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Cyrille Lefevre Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001123031656.A61355@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200011212237.OAA00557@spammie.svbug.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from clefevre@cybercable.fr on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:43:33AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:43:33AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > can someone remember me the problem w/ DD ? Geez, we've just had a 30 message thread that stated many times the problem with dang.ded. drives. > well, I don't have tested anything since I don't have any free drive to burn, > but the spirit is here, no ? Use a vn(4) device as your "disk". You can then try things to your hearts content. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message