From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 04:08:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA21581 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:08:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA21575; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:08:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id WAA22633; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:38:13 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611231208.WAA22633@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: from Andrew Stesin at "Nov 23, 96 01:53:15 pm" To: stesin@gu.net (Andrew Stesin) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:38:12 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Stesin stands accused of saying: > 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. > > 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. *shrug* Bruce recently posted the results of some tests he performed, which matched with my empirical observations that the NCR BIOS reads the contents of the MBR and reports its geometry to match. I've lost cou8nt of the number of NCR-using systems I've installed; I'm sure that I've used the DD option before and it's worked, but I've certainly had more than a few cases where users have selected it and been bitten. > Andrew Stesin > > nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE > > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[