From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 15:09:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F46277; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C889A8FC1C; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q9UF9Yn5016841; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:34 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id q9UF9YTI016839; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:34 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201210301509.q9UF9YTI016839@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:34 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r39865 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:09:35 -0000 Author: eadler Date: Tue Oct 30 15:09:34 2012 New Revision: 39865 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39865 Log: These specific BIOS manufacturers are not known to have these problems recently; also 53C8xx is hardly popular anymore. Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Oct 30 15:09:31 2012 (r39864) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Tue Oct 30 15:09:34 2012 (r39865) @@ -4574,11 +4574,8 @@ kern.sched.name: ULE they are getting in contact with such a disk, or even worse, they might damage the BSD bootstrap without even asking or notifying you. In addition, the dangerously - dedicated disk's layout is known to confuse many - BIOSes, including those from AWARD (e.g. as found in HP - Netserver and Micronics systems as well as many others) and - Symbios/NCR (for the popular 53C8xx range of SCSI - controllers). This is not a complete list, there are more. + dedicated disk's layout is known to confuse some + BIOSes. Symptoms of this confusion include the read error message printed by the &os; bootstrap when it cannot find itself, as well as system lockups when