From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 14 23:48:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0332C37B401; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:48:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0F7m2Q00962; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:48:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101150748.f0F7m2Q00962@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c In-Reply-To: <20010115081706.D63646@lucifer.bart.nl> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:48:02 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20010115 06:35], Peter Wemm (peter@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > > Log: > > Don't invite trouble by waving the 'Dangerously Dedicated' (DD) option > > at people. This has been sitting in my tree for a few months now. I > > have spoken with quite a few folks about this and the support for doing > > this was pretty strong. I dont remember names though, so I cannot share > > the blame :-(. Note that this does not *remove* DD mode, it just stops > > waving it at new users. You can still set it via config files etc, and > > the bootblocks and kernel still support it. You can still use disklabel > > to make true DD disks. > > I haven't looked at the commit yet, but is the DD mode still available > easily from under the Custom setup? > > Or is the only thing to get at it through install scripts? > We only use dedicated mode at the company I work for, no problems > whatsoever. .. yet ... What happens when they bump revisions of the motherboards or bios's that you use and it stops working on your new motherboards? Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message