From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 3 2:13:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand4.global.net.uk (sand4.global.net.uk [194.126.80.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09BA614FB5 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 02:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p6ds10a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.218.110] helo=marder-1.) by sand4.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Bacv-0005a9-00; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:12:53 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id KAA00431; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:06:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:06:18 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: Bill Hussey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't build kernel (was: Yo Quiero vnode_if.h) Message-ID: <19990803100618.B267@marder-1> References: <37A68550.EE8B3BF@home.net> <19990803154935.U62948@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990803154935.U62948@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:49:35PM +0930 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:49:35PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 1:59:45 -0400, Bill Hussey wrote: > > > and as I read it in the book, there is no way to format an IDE drive > > except, as the book puts it, to format it with the BIOS. What does > > this mean? > > When you boot up some machines, the BIOS setup screens include a hard > disk format utility. You can use this to format (in Microsoft terms: > low-level format) an IDE disk. I'm pretty sure that's not necessary. > and totally pointless. AFAIK, (modern) IDE drives can only be "low-level" formatted by the manufacturer. Using a BIOS format utility will only succeed in trashing the servo info on the disk thereby rendering the disk useless. Most (all?) IDE drives protect themselves against these BIOS programs by simply sending back an "OK" message, but without actually doing anything. -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:markov@globalnet.co.uk http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message