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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.IAEhv.nl!oosten!peterj From: peterj@oosten.IAEhv.nl (Peter Joosten) Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my drive Organization: At Home Inc., The Netherlands Message-ID: <Dr5KLu.1B9@oosten.IAEhv.nl> References: <jm040795-0905961004030001@mencju.apple.com> Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 19:25:06 GMT Lines: 28 In article <jm040795-0905961004030001@mencju.apple.com>, Raven <jm040795@fhda.edu> wrote: >I just tried to install FreeBSD on my second HardDrive (2gig) and FreeBSD >killed my first hard drive. Now the geometry is all screwed up. > >I'm really pissed off. NeXTStep, Solaris, and my DOS partition are toasty >critters with the onslaught of the geometry ignorant FreeBSD. > >Apparently, FreeBSD is not compatable with the BIOS translation of ALL >Adaptec SCSI cards. Everything else seems to work, including Linux. I >guess FreeBSD isn't all it's crack up to be. > >Excuse the above, but I'm quite pissed right now, proabaly because of a >moronic bug in the retarded Label utility. You are excused ! Lesson 1 for Database Administrators: Always take precautions, so you can get back to the point you started from. In General this means: make a BACKUP before trying something new/risky. I think this rule also applies to System Administrators. Sorry you had to learn it the hard way. Greetings Peter Joosten