From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 06:02:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AFE16A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 06:02:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za (mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za [196.7.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384E043FB1 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 06:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ianf@za.uu.net) Received: from copernicus.so.cpt1.za.uu.net ([196.30.72.32]) by mailspool.ops.uunet.co.za with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1AGfHP-000CTr-00 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:02:03 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=za.uu.net) by copernicus.so.cpt1.za.uu.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1AGfHO-000LPl-00 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:02:02 +0200 To: current@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:29:03 PST." <20031029072903.GA56958@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20031029072903.GA56958@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Ian Freislich X-image-url: http://www.freislich.nom.za/gallery/ian-small.gif X-BOFH: true X-LART: Depleted uranium X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. You have been deleted Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:02:02 +0200 Message-ID: <82320.1067868122@za.uu.net> Sender: ianf@za.uu.net Subject: Re: Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 14:02:06 -0000 "David O'Brien" wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:58:52PM +0100, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > > First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the > > available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at > > sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless > > on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should > > create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever > > asked. > > It is NOT useless. Why do you think it is? Perhaps you don't relize > that some BIOS's wont boot from a hard disk that isn't partitioned to > agree with the specifications of the PeeCee. If you want to treat your > PC as a Sun, don't -- buy a Sun, FreeBSD runs on that too. Hmmm, not a reason why it's useless, but certainly one case where it just plain doesn't work: I have some SCSI disks which my BIOS refuses to boot unless dangerously dedicated. Any ideas are welcome. They are all the same as this: da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 4340C) Ian