From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 14 21:14:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 14 21:14:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clones.com (unknown [216.70.178.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFBB37B400 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (gross@localhost) by mail.clones.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09254; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:15:45 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:15:44 -0800 (PST) From: Glendon Gross To: Warner Losh Cc: Greg Lehey , Sam Zamarripa , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200012150455.VAA66220@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they don't recognize the dedicated format? On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Glendon Gross writes: > : Please correct me if I am wrong, but this discussion seems to revolve > : around a problem that results from nonstandard BIOS routines. > > Not so much non-standard bios routines, but rather from BIOSes that > know too much about what Should Be There and reacting Badly when that > isn't the case. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message