From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 16:43:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B004616A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8360D43D39 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:43:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1096907873.3100f9@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6A214E453 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id i8OGbrV8066241 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1096907873.3100f9@mired.org) Received: (qmail 45268 invoked by uid 100); 24 Sep 2004 16:37:53 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 100); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:37:53 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16724.19808.455012.475075@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:37:52 -0500 To: Ian Dowse In-Reply-To: <200301150007.aa39192@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200301150007.aa39192@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer cc: dwbear75@gmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously dedicated vs. fully dedicated, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:43:35 -0000 In <200301150007.aa39192@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, Ian Dowse typed: > As to the issue of BIOSes disliking DD modes, there have been a few > different reasons suggested. I had a dual xeon BIOS that had "anti-virus" code. If the boot block didn't have the write MBR on it, it rewrote the first 63 sectors, clobbering my DD (type B) disklabel. It could be turned off in the BIOS, but caused me (not the kernel) to panic the first time it happened. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.