From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 7 07:22:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA04353 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 07:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from pci.on.ca (inti.pci.on.ca [207.112.123.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA04340 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 07:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@repeat.pci.on.ca) Received: by pci.on.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.1) id ; Fri, 7 Nov 97 10:24 EST Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by repeat.pci.on.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA03502; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:20:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:20:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711071520.KAA03502@repeat.pci.on.ca> From: David Gilbert To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca (David Gilbert), fbugs@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/4948: SCSI don't boot. In-Reply-To: <19971107085533.AG15207@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199711052330.PAA18225@hub.freebsd.org> <19971106231933.54562@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199711070220.VAA12412@repeat.pci.on.ca> <19971107085533.AG15207@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "J" == J Wunsch writes: J> 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. J> Even Adaptec? That's stupid of them. People, send bug reports to J> your BIOS vendors. By now, i've only seen it on HP systems J> (Netserver and Vectra), but they ship with a hacked BIOS anyway. J> Btw., BSD/OS must suffer the same problems, they also know a mode J> that's comparable to our DD mode (and i was planning to make our J> kernel recognize their drives). 6-8 months ago, I came across a 2940UW that wouldn't boot BSD/OS because of this problem. According to BSDI, this was known to be the new standard for 2940's. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================