From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 19:59:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA25931 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA25906; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 19:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA25278; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:29:30 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707310259.MAA25278@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: compaq armada and fdisk In-Reply-To: <199707301926.VAA12923@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Jul 30, 97 09:26:07 pm" To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:29:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij stands accused of saying: > > Is it still protected if you boot from floppy? > > It sometimes is and sometimes is not ;-) > It is not when I run fdisk from a fresh MSDOS bootflop. It is when I > run fdisk from the harddisk itsself. It is also when I boot MSDOS > from floppy and use FIPS. > I called Compaq today and they'll replace the disk... > > -Guido > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[