Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:58:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: Glendon Gross <gross@clones.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Sam Zamarripa <samz@oz.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dedicated disks (was: Dangerously Dedicated) Message-ID: <20001215175842.B91832@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012150218220.8135-100000@jason.argos.org>; from mike@argos.org on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 02:20:40AM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0012142113360.9249-100000@mail.clones.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012150218220.8135-100000@jason.argos.org>
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On Friday, 15 December 2000 at 2:20:40 -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > >> Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they >> don't recognize the dedicated format? > > There are times when the politically-correct of the world use the term > "proprietary" when they actually mean "dumb" or "really badly > designed". But yes, that's what it means... :) To be fair, the dedicated fake partition table format is a hack. It's too difficult to figure out what the real geometry is, so it invents one which should "do the job". Some BIOSes check the table and find it wanting. It's a grey area. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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