Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:22:49 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: boing@boing.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fully Dedicated HD may clobber some BIOS' Message-ID: <199902042222.UAA22119@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199902042117.NAA16608@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 4, 1999 1:17:10 pm"
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#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
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