From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 17:52:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20547 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA20540 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 17:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA17517; Tue, 7 May 1996 10:26:14 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605070056.KAA17517@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW + Quantum Atlas XP32150W Support To: dfaules@intellinet.com (Daniel F. Faules) Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 10:26:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960506213140.0068fb88@pop.intellinet.com> from "Daniel F. Faules" at May 6, 96 04:31:40 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel F. Faules stands accused of saying: > > Reading the Running FreeBSD book, a suggestion is made that the disk geometry > is not correct, and that i need to change it in the FDisk program. A call to > quantum gave me the following values for cyl/hd/sect (3852/10/109) > The Fdisk program refuses to take these values, and insists on replacing it > with 2050/64/32. As mentioned in the release notes, put a small DOS partition on the disk and then delete it during the installation process. This will allow the installer to correctly intuit the BIOS geometry for the drive. > Finally, my questions. Is the Adaptec 2940UW correctly supported by 2.1? It's a PCI device. If it wasn't supported, the PCI device ID's wouldn't be recognised, and it would be ignored. > Are the cyl/hd/sect values that i have correct? Has anyone made this combo > work? No, and hundreds, in that order. > - Dan Faules -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[