Re: problem with chflags

2001-06-01 Thread brian j. peterson
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:03:57PM +0200, Michiel Boland wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Colin Percival wrote: > >Well I'm just a clueless bumbling newbie myself, but since nobody else > > seems to have answered yet... it sounds to me like you're running at a > > positive securelevel. You prob

Re: FreeBSD - Linux curiosity

2001-06-12 Thread brian j. peterson
if you simply want to erase the hard drive in order to install Linux, try one (or both) of the following utilities from IBM: http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Wipe http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Zap (read the documentation first, of course.) -brian

hw.ata.tags, tuning(7), and IBM 60GXP drives (ATTN: Matt Dillon?)

2001-06-19 Thread brian j. peterson
the tuning(7) manpage states that IBM DPTA and DTLA drives support the hw.ata.tags feature. it also recommends against purchasing such drives because of quality control concerns. has anyone had a chance to look at the 60GXP(*) drives and confirm both their support for hw.ata.tags and their quali