From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 4 15:02:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07573 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:02:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07310 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22119; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:22:49 -0200 (EDT) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199902042222.UAA22119@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' In-Reply-To: <199902042117.NAA16608@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 4, 1999 1:17:10 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:22:49 -0200 (EDT) Cc: boing@boing.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG #define quoting(Mike Smith) // > I may have spoken slightly incorrectly. Perhaps to be more accurate, // > it's the bios not allowing the drive to recognize due to the lack or valid // > fdisk partitions .... My apologies for wasting everyone else's time. I // > have personally experienced this with my HP vectra's at work. // // Again, it's not the "lack or valid fdisk partitions", it's the bogus // information inserted by "dangerously dedicated". // // The solution is simple; DO NOT use "dangerously dedicated" mode. At // all. Ever. Why not wipe it out, then ? Is there any advantage ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message