From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 9 16:49:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D14B437B41C for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:49:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fBA0nER41709; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:49:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112100049.fBA0nER41709@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c References: <20011210004350.6703C3810@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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. : :This is why it is called dangerous. : :Cheers, :-Peter :-- :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message