Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:30:19 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: <kstewart@urx.com>, "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: <0aef01c052a2$34fc3f60$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org> <3A1897EB.39DAE37B@urx.com>
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I originally install freebsd 2.2.5 on my server and forgot if I used this option or not. I'm currently at 4.1.1, how can I check to see if I'm dangerously dedicated or not? ----- Original Message ----- 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> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 9:18 PM Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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