[rescue] Sun Kit Needed for EE Student Here

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On May 3, 2006, at 15:06, der Mouse wrote:

> To a certain extent, it actually turned out to be true.  I have a disk
> that won't work with that machine without careful setup.  I have to
> explicitly tell the BIOS there is nothing there; if I let the BIOS
> touch that drive at all, the BIOS wedges.  But if I tell the BIOS
> there's nothing there and boot from somewhere else, the kernel  
> finds it
> fine and everything works.  Annoying.

That sounds like a bug, not obsoletion. Even an ancient machine that  
doesn't support hard drives that large should not hang, just refuse  
to see it (or refuse to see more than XGB of space).

  - Micah