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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 96 03:17:15 PST."
             <199611231117.VAA22545@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:52:18 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199611231117.VAA22545@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> you write:
>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.

Oh, how scary.  (Yes, I'm using an NCR controller).  If this is really true,
then I would think that the install should mention it when it's warning you
that you really don't want to use dangerously dedicated.

  Bill