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Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:30:19 -0600
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I originally install freebsd 2.2.5 on my server and forgot if I used this
option or not.  I'm currently at 4.1.1, how can I check to see if I'm
dangerously dedicated or not?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@urx.com>
To: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; "Greg Lehey"
<grog@lemis.com>; <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Sam Zamarripa" <samz@oz.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated)


>
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > In message <XFMail.001120111426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> "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
> >
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>
> --
> Kent Stewart
> Richland, WA
>
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