From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Jun 20 16:19:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23918 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org ([209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA23909 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 15171 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Jun 1998 23:19:53 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:19:53 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Chris Parry Subject: RE: DPT support binaries - How to Setup Cc: freebsd-SCSI@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@nac.net Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Jun-98 Chris Parry wrote: > > Alex, thanks for the notes, I have my own opinions there, but they aren't > really relavent for this. My assumption is I need to have a DOS bootable > partition somewhere with the storage management software on it (or > perhaps > I could get away with doing it from floppy), then setup my RAID-1 device, > which will then simply appear as /dev/sd0 from the FreeBSD side of > things. > > Is this correct? Yup. I typically have slice (DOS partition) 1 as a small (64MB or less) DOS partition. I have customers who do not want to pay the DOS royalties, nor do they want to violate federal copyright laws by installing DOS on a disk, when it will practically never be used. These people choose to do the work from floppy. I use IBM PC-DOS, so as to minimize the payment to M$. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message