From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 19:19:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCF237B4C5 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:19:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07659; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:18:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1897EB.39DAE37B@urx.com> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:18:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Greg Lehey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sam Zamarripa Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) References: <200011200050.RAA16476@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > : At least remove the option from sysinstall so new users don't get > : stuck with it. > > I strongly support this. It has burned me on several machines. It burned me on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 1999 and I won't touch it any more. If you want to move a disk to a new system, there isn't any guarantee that it will boot if any of the HD's are DD. The system doesn't even get to the boot process but hangs when the bios is dealing with the drive right after if finished counting memory. When it hangs at this point in the startup it is really rough to add a proper mbr back on the disk. Kent > > I don't think that anyone will remove it from the kernel... > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message