From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 7 12:30:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09808 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles235.castles.com [208.214.165.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09801 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07134; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902072026.MAA07134@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Rico Pajarola cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:04:30 +0100." <3.0.32.19990207170425.0092c9e0@shrike.overmind.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 12:26:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Interesting, all these "well known" names (Compaq, HP, Siemens) seem to have > >problems with it... ... > So if it doesn't work, it's not because DD is a bad (or wrong) thing, but Even though it is a bad (and wrong) thing. > the BIOS checks for something it just should not check (ie it should only > look at the signature on the master boot record, and if it is ok, it should > load it without any further tests). This is actually exactly the problem; they *do* read the MBR, and they *do* trust it, and because the DD MBR *is* broken, these BIOSsen fail. > Sorry if this was a bit too loud, but I just don't want to see DD go away. It will go away as soon as someone puts on their toxic-waste suit and wades into libdisk to fix its geometry-extraction code. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message