From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 1 10:11:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13778 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:11:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13761 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:11:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yVIvT-000218-00; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:44:43 -0700 Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Craig Miller cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC-7780 (integrated scsi) supported? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 1 May 1998, Craig Miller wrote: > Hi, > My apologies in advance if I've chosen the wrong mailing list. > > I've checked the FreeBSD Disk Controller list and it lists the > Adaptec AIC7850 as supported. Is the AIC7880 also supported? Yes (this is a hardware question). > I have a 4.3gb UW scsi drive with NT (preinstalled) on the first 2gb > partition and want to install 2.2.6 on the remaining portion of > the drive. On my first attempt I split the remaining sectors into a > 1gb and a 1.3gb partition and successfully installed Freebsd on the > first, but when I try to put filesystems on the 1.3gb partition, > filesystems on the 1gb partition get wiped out, almost as if > the newfs writes were going to random sectors. (This really belongs freebsd-questions) FreeBSD has been given the wrong partitioning info, so they are actually overlapping. Probably a bad disk label, or a geometry problem. Are the partitions you speak of slices? How are you refering to them? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message