From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 03:54:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21159 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua ([194.93.190.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA21139; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:54:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua [194.93.190.3]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA70720; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:53:15 +0200 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:53:15 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin X-Sender: stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua To: Michael Smith cc: Bill Fenner , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: <199611231117.VAA22545@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > You are using an NCR controller, or some other SCSI controller that > reads the partition table out of the MBR. The 'dangerously dedicated' > mode won't work with these controllers, as they become _very_ confused > by it. Dear Michael, I can't agree with you here. I've been using NCR's for 2 years and even now a box with one is near me installed a while ago. Each and every such a box with just any HDD brand was installed in a 'dangerously dedicated' fascion and it just worked. -- Best, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE