From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 21:34:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FCE37B9D5 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn3079.bossig.com [208.26.243.79]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:20:50 -0800 Message-ID: <38D9A759.AECD3FEC@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:10:49 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Warner Losh , Vivek Khera , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" References: <14552.57732.739752.665443@onceler.kcilink.com> <4.3.2.20000321160347.00ad9b20@207.227.119.2> <38D50DBC.88FA8E4D@glue.umd.edu> <38D3AB72.366D851D@glue.umd.edu> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> <200003190433.VAA04863@harmony.village.org> <200003212255.PAA26291@harmony.village.org> <200003222301.QAA34410@harmony.village.org> <38D99548.3201BC6D@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > I didn't say that using da0a is stupid. I said using dangerously > > dedicated mode is stupid. Based on the number of times I've shot > > myself in the foot trying to use dangaerously dedicated devices over > > the years, I'll never use them again. > > I'm curious, what kind of problems have you had, and how is using the > compatability slice an improvement? I've always used "dangerously > dedicated" on my freebsd-only disks, and I've never had a problem. When I first started using FreeBSD back in Feb 99, I tried to use DD disks and the system would not begin the boot process. It would count memory and hang. We are talking about three different drives and the boot would fail if any were DD. It was like the bios queried the HDs and the HD would not respond and the bios just sat there waiting for the response. The second I "fdisk /mbr" the drives the system would boot. The drives that I had these problems with were all Western Digital. Two of them died, one was in warranty and was replaced but while it was in the mail I, replaced it with a Maxtor UDMA 33. It is on the shelf because I can't see replacing a UDMA33 drive with one that only does PIO4. Kent > > Not disagreeing, just curious, > > Doug > -- > "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into > existence, > is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. > The master simply replied, "Mu." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message