Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:08:32 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI setup help !!! Message-ID: <Mutt.19970303200832.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <l03010d08af40703fc890@[208.2.87.4]>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mar 3, 1997 06:54:31 -0600 References: <l03010d07af4020b3180f@[208.2.87.4]>; <l03010d07af4020b3180f@[208.2.87.4]> <l03010d08af40703fc890@[208.2.87.4]>
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As Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > >Keep Win95 or other poisoned systems away. > > Don't worry. This is a "Microsoft Free Zone". :-) > I don't even have a copy of "DOS" to run setup > on those sh*^^y pc interface cards. Then, why the he** didn't you use ``DD'' mode? To which non-existant in your environment operating system did you try to maintain compatibility? > >That's been your problem. :) No no, rather that you've got the geometry > >wrong. > > Don't blame ME! I wasn't ask anything about "geometry." I suspect that > the problem has to do with the false assumptions used for these generic > allocations. It's hard to guess a geometry if there are no traces to look at. The guessing code apparently works good if there's something prevalent on the disk. That lead to a situation in FreeBSD 2.0.5 where the ``official'' recommendation was ``Oh well, put a small DOS partition there first.'' This scared me (and not only me), since i'm in a similar position to you, i usually have a hard time in even finding a suitable DOS floppy at all -- and why the heck should i do this anyway, i wanna have BSD there, not DOS?! That's why ``DD'' mode has been born. > Here's what I think I want. What do you suggest for details. Looks OK. Except, i don't have any clues about CCD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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