Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <200112100049.fBA0nER41709@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20011210004350.6703C3810@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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:This illegal geometry causes divide by zero errors in a handful of scsi
:bioses from Adaptec.
:
:This illegal geometry causes divide by zero errors in a handful of scsi
:bioses from NCR/Symbios.
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:This is why it is called dangerous.
:
:Cheers,
:-Peter
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:Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
Handful? I'm taking my life in my hands if I DD a DELL machine. BEWM!
As I found out the hard way about a year ago. (Probably the Adaptec
firmware but every Dell rack-mount has one so...). The machines wouldn't
boot again until I pulled the physical drives and then camcontrol
rescan'd them in after a CD boot. Joy.
This is why I fixed disklabel -B to operate properly on slices and
added a whole section to the end of 'man disklabel' to describe how
to do it.
-Matt
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