From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 7 00:21:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA17893 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 00:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA17888 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 00:20:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02895; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:20:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA02500; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:55:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971107085533.AG15207@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:55:33 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca (David Gilbert) Cc: fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/4948: SCSI don't boot. References: <199711052330.PAA18225@hub.freebsd.org> <19971106231933.54562@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199711070220.VAA12412@repeat.pci.on.ca> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199711070220.VAA12412@repeat.pci.on.ca>; from David Gilbert on Nov 6, 1997 21:20:42 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Gilbert wrote: > Since there are a number of devices that require fdisk > partitions (a number of BIOS's require them as do newer 2940's), it > would seem that this is really an area that should be addressed. Even Adaptec? That's stupid of them. People, send bug reports to your BIOS vendors. By now, i've only seen it on HP systems (Netserver and Vectra), but they ship with a hacked BIOS anyway. Btw., BSD/OS must suffer the same problems, they also know a mode that's comparable to our DD mode (and i was planning to make our kernel recognize their drives). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)