On Sun, 23-Jul-2000 at 18:57:12 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > > Hello all!
> > >
> > > Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > >
> > > > John Baldwin once stated:
> > > >
> >
> > > Folks, gemoetries are for brain damaged PC operating systems.
> > > All the box needs to boot is a proper MBR. BIOSes that
> > > don't boot from a dedicated disk are _broken_.
> >
> > No, they are actually smart in that they attempt to use a geometry that
> > matches the MBR so that you can move disks around. As a result, when we
> > try to fake it, it confuses them.
>
> Hmmm. Perhaps my memory is failing me, but I've been using
> "dangerously dedicated" disks exclusively for the last few years, because
> it was supposed to insulate me from the silliness of BIOS geometry
> translation. By insulate, I mean that a disk formatted on one system was
> always usable on another even if it decided to have a different geometry
> translation.
>
> I don't shuttle disks around between systems as much as I used to,
> but I do recall dedicated mode helping. The only systems that had problem
> booting were old and are long gone. I haven't seen or bought anything in
> the last three years that won't boot a "dangerously dedicated" disk.
Buy a (brandnew) Siemens machine and you will see one :-(.
-Andre
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