Doug Barton wrote:
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > I didn't say that using da0a is stupid. I said using dangerously
> > dedicated mode is stupid. Based on the number of times I've shot
> > myself in the foot trying to use dangaerously dedicated devices over
> > the years, I'll never use them again.
>
> I'm curious, what kind of problems have you had, and how is using the
> compatability slice an improvement? I've always used "dangerously
> dedicated" on my freebsd-only disks, and I've never had a problem.
When I first started using FreeBSD back in Feb 99, I tried to use DD
disks and the system would not begin the boot process. It would count
memory and hang. We are talking about three different drives and the
boot would fail if any were DD. It was like the bios queried the HDs
and the HD would not respond and the bios just sat there waiting for
the response. The second I "fdisk /mbr" the drives the system would
boot. The drives that I had these problems with were all Western
Digital. Two of them died, one was in warranty and was replaced but
while it was in the mail I, replaced it with a Maxtor UDMA 33. It is
on the shelf because I can't see replacing a UDMA33 drive with one
that only does PIO4.
Kent
>
> Not disagreeing, just curious,
>
> Doug
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