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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!]
Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:49:41 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Michael Curry <mcurry@fred.net> wrote:
] While I applaud the open discussion of Policies for Politely Political Support of
] Operating System Enthusiasts, something is beginning to bother me, to wit: If
] the addition of a second disk drive has been a support, er, ah, problem for over
] a year, then there must have been some sizable body of literature generated
] within the newsgroup itself, nie? Since there IS an entry for "Adding Disk
] Drives" in the Handbook, might it be possible in the interim to, well, put in a
] pointer to some glob of newsgroup messages, however unstructured such information
] might be?
]
] Heck, if someone will tell me where the raw information can be found, I'll write
] up a set of procedures and hand it over to the person in charge.
The operation is documented in detail in the handbook, which is
online at www.freebsd.org.
The main problem is that it isn't a single command called
"add_disk". To get to that level of automation requires
resolving some fundamental issues tightly bound to things
like BIOS geometry and DOS partition table C/H/S fields.
If you are willing to work on VM86() support to resolve this
problem, I have nearly a megabyte of design discussion and
architectural "gotchas" with descriptions of workarounds
that I will tar up and send you.
If not, use the procesure in the handbook, and enter the
magic numbers as requested.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.