Using a hard drive without partitions

[Benjamin Lutz]

Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Correct about DD... This array will NEVER be used with another OS and
> It will NEVER be booted from.... The disk array will never show it's
> self in DOS because it needs special drivers. In FreeBSD I want it to
> show up as one big disk and just mount it as /data or something to
> that effect.

Omitting slices (ie, using DD) will work just fine then (the drawbacks
that it does have don't apply to you). It will keep working in the
future. Whether you want to use it or not comes down to personal
preference really.

Cheers
Benjamin
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