From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 17:11:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA19254 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA19243 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id BAA03589 ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 01:59:42 +0100 (BST) To: Terry Lambert cc: RDNN@music.macarthur.uws.edu.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Boot Problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 1996 17:44:31 PDT." <199604020044.RAA14827@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 01:59:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3587.828406781@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote in message ID <199604020044.RAA14827@phaeton.artisoft.com>: > > 5) Are you doing the rawrite operation under Windows 95? It seems to > > suceed, whereas all that's happened is that it's written the first > > track (or so) of data out - the rest fails silently. > This hasn't been reported before, as far as I know. Umm. Hmm. Jordan? Didn't you tell me something along these lines a month or so ago? > If this really happens, it needs to be fixed. 8-(. Along with a whole host of other problems with rawrite. And also fbsdboot. Unfortunately, like a lot of other stuff in this area of the system, you need to be certifiably insane, and also know too much about DOS & BIOS calls. People who meet these criteria are few and far between :( Gary