From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 19:58:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blocker.mincom.com (blocker1.mincom.com [203.55.175.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9876414CA4 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by blocker.mincom.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA34409; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:58:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from philh@mincom.com) Received: from porthole.mincom.oz.au(172.17.100.2) via SMTP by blocker.mincom.oz.au, id smtpdg34407; Wed Apr 28 12:58:10 1999 Received: (from philh@localhost) by porthole.mincom.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA02362; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:58:10 +1000 (EST) From: Phil Homewood Message-Id: <199904280258.MAA02362@porthole.mincom.oz.au> Subject: Re: Weirdness with Adaptec 7890 In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 27, 99 12:46:14 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:58:10 +1000 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL27 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > The BIOS can't seem to find the MBR. Does this disk have slices > (compatbility mode) or did you make it dedicated? It's sliced. (First FreeBSD-only machine I've built that way in a long time. Others have all been dangerously dedicated.) > Oh, shoot, that's right -- the 2940 does have big disk translation. > What's the status of the >1GB disk setting in the AIC7890's BIOS? These > do need to match otherwise the BIOS will get confused. Spot on. I missed that option the first time through the BIOS settings. Enabled it on the 7890 and the machine is now running smoothly. Thanks again to Doug and to Guy for steering me on the right track. Anyone know what effect this option has on system performance? (ie, any reason why enabled/disabled is preferable under non-DOS environments?) -- Phil Homewood DNRC email: philh@mincom.com Postmaster and BOFH Mincom Pty Ltd phone: +61-7-3303-3524 Brisbane, QLD Australia fax: +61-7-3303-3269 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message