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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBsd in the press (Inforworld article) Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:06:48 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4le818$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4krhog$2ooq@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <31786324.243A080A@lambert.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >] However, that's usually only a problem for the boot disk, not for >] adding a second disk. :) >Unless it's on a different controller. >Unless the translation is different because the controller tries >to do a "best fit" to avoid wasting sectors. Don't know which horse you're riding here. >Unless the driver for the second controller is loaded from >your CONFIG.SYS file instead of BIOS POST. I don't even have a CONFIG.SYS -- what'sat? >Unless your first disk is using OnTrack Disk Manager 6.x/7.x. This case is handled by libdisk. (I can't say how well, since i don't have such a beast, and i'm not eager to get one.) >Unless your second disk, which doesn't need it, came with >Disk Manager pre-installed because that what they do with >large IDE drives, and they assume that the disk will be >the only disk in the system because who needs more than 1G? How is it referenced? If i dump BSD all over the disk? If not, see above (DM is handled by libdisk -- UTST). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)