Confirmation Of Drive Failure

[Adam Vande More]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>  Also regarding ada0, dangerously dedicated mode is not supported 8.x+
>>
>
> AFAIK, it would still work, it's just not recommended.  The installer
> memory stick images still use it, even on 10.0.
>

It was removed in 8.0R.  The memstick image must be built in a flaky way,
but it doesn't actually use the 'a' device to mount.

-- 
Adam