Ian wrote:
> > From: Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [misinformation from Terry and lots of flamage snipped]
> >
> > Gentlemen.. does this discussion on a public list serve any useful purpose?
>
> Of course it does ... it's training newcomers to the list and people who
> peruse the list a
> From: Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [misinformation from Terry and lots of flamage snipped]
>
> Gentlemen.. does this discussion on a public list serve any useful purpose?
Of course it does ... it's training newcomers to the list and people who
peruse the list archives in the future
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:19:45PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > >> Please do not follow Terrys advice, unless and until you have
> > >> independent confirmation that his 10 year old knowledge is still
> > >> current.
> > >
> > >Poul: "I will say that advice is bad, bu
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> Please do not follow Terrys advice, unless and until you have
> >> independent confirmation that his 10 year old knowledge is still
> >> current.
> >
> >Poul: "I will say that advice is bad, but I will not provide advice
> > of my own, because it might be bad, t
Hello everybody,
OK, just in order to clarify before things get out of hand.:-)
There is no immediate problem, the drive in question has been installed
and works fine. (using it this instant).
As for the BIOS part, the mobo could probably use an upgrade, because
the BIOS is still from spring of
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Please do not follow Terrys advice, unless and until you have
>> independent confirmation that his 10 year old knowledge is still
>> current.
>
>Poul: "I will say that advice is bad, but I will not provide advice
>
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Please do not follow Terrys advice, unless and until you have
> independent confirmation that his 10 year old knowledge is still
> current.
Poul: "I will say that advice is bad, but I will not provide advice
of my own, because it might be bad, too, and open me to
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Lambert writes:
>DOS partition tables use a 24b C/H/S value. With 512B sectors, this
>means they are incapable of representing more than 8G of disk space.
Ahh, I love these time-warp emails from Terry. [*]
This is the way the world looked circa 1990.
I d
DOS partition tables use a 24b C/H/S value. With 512B sectors, this
means they are incapable of representing more than 8G of disk space.
To support a 32b sector offset, you have to go to LBA mode. This
isn't really supported by any BIOS that still respects the C/H/S
offsets, since they will ove
Hello,
I have a -CURRENT from May 5th.
I recently bought a new 40 gig IDE disk and proceeded to install it. I
went for "compatible" (as opposed to "dangerously dedicated") mode. I
first used fdisk to initialize the slice table and create a FreeBSD
slice that would take in the whole disk. After
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