From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 3 11:20:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22313 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:20:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA22308 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA24016 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:20:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA05999; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:08:32 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 !!! References: ; X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mar 3, 1997 06:54:31 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)