Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:54:52 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Rico Pajarola <pajarola@cybertime.ch> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Message-ID: <19990207145452.A9929@internal> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990206181103.008afb70@shrike.overmind.ch>; from Rico Pajarola on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:15:05PM %2B0100 References: <3.0.32.19990206181103.008afb70@shrike.overmind.ch>
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On Sat, 06-Feb-1999 at 18:15:05 +0100, Rico Pajarola wrote: > >Why not wipe it out, then ? Is there any advantage ? > Because I am using it all the time, and yes it has it's advantages. > > I had no problems so far, except on Compaq's and HP's on which it don't > work at all. I've not come across any other machines that don't work (and Just to add it for reference: Machines from our company (Siemens) also don't work with dangerously dedicated disks :-( They have a thing called Phoenix BIOS and I have got plenty of them... Interesting, all these "well known" names (Compaq, HP, Siemens) seem to have problems with it... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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