From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 15:23:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0F737B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAJNL1t58974; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:51:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:51:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sam Zamarripa Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001120095100.G58333@echunga.lemis.com> References: <200011192231.eAJMVIF09854@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <008901c05278$b71a6f50$0200000a@sam>; from samz@oz.net on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 02:33:17PM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 19 November 2000 at 14:33:17 -0800, Sam Zamarripa wrote: > I have been using DD since I first starting followin stable in the 3.0 days > with no problems. When and if DD is taken out, do all of us with DD disks be > required to reformat our drives? This would be a real big > pain if so. Thanks. As far as I know, there has been no decision to remove dedicated mode. I for one would strongly oppose it. Arguments about bootstraps and BIOS are bogus: on a dedicated machine, you only need a bootstrap on the boot disk, so any additional disks can always be dedicated. But to answer your question: if you have to change from dedicated to a Microsoft compatible layout, yes, you'll have to rebuild all your file systems. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message