From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 7 05:55:04 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA29639 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:55:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA29600 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 05:54:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA18531 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:54:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.siemens.de (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA03930 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:54:56 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28908 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:54:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 14:54:52 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Rico Pajarola Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Message-ID: <19990207145452.A9929@internal> References: <3.0.32.19990206181103.008afb70@shrike.overmind.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19990206181103.008afb70@shrike.overmind.ch>; from Rico Pajarola on Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:15:05PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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