From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Oct 23 19:27:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14218 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA14210 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xOZRw-0004Wi-00; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:26:08 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:26:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Greg Lehey cc: Kenneth W Cochran , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.5 w/DPT support In-Reply-To: <19971024113313.63506@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: ... > table. Partition tables are an invention of Microsoft, and suffer ... Not quite. Mostly an IBM invention. After all, if Microsoft had really designed it, do you think they would added multiple operating system support? In the Microsoft scheme of things, there is only one operating system. > from a number of limitations, including the geometry kludges that > still give people a lot of headaches when installing FreeBSD. Kludges? Most geometry problems occur with IDE drives with greater than 1024 cyclinders, and trying to use some space for a non-FreeBSd system. > So why "dangerous"? Because if you use it, you can't add any other > partitions later. Well, if you're using the whole disk for FreeBSD, > you can't anyway. One way or another, you need to repartition the > disk, and if you want, you can then add a Microsoft partition table. > > I recommend using "dangerously dedicated" disks whenever possible. > So, for that matter, does BSDI. > > Greg Tom