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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
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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