Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@fourier.physics.purdue.edu> Cc: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390 and 3.0 Message-ID: <199811112041.MAA04940@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:19:22 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981111151451.22793A-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu>
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> > Boot up hardware test reports the DC-390F as ncr0. We've had it up for a > while with a problem in large volume address translation (requiring boot > from floppy), but we think that was our own misconfiguration. We shall be > bringing it back up within a week, if you'd like a report then. That's probably correct - if you installed the system using sysinstall and elected to use "dangerously dedicated mode" (all disk, not cross-compatible), the NCR BIOS will usually get the geometry wrong (it looks to see how the disk is laid out, and doesn't understand what a DD layout looks like). Some system BIOSses make the same mistakes on IDE disks. It is for this reason that we *strongly* *discourage* the use of this mode. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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