Confirmation Of Drive Failure

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Nov 9 01:06:44 UTC 2013


On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Adam Vande More wrote:

> 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.

Could you point me to a commit or something?  I'd like to see what 
changed.  Thanks!


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