From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 18:55:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07200 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com ([207.21.168.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07173 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: from mail-ftp (mail.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.101]) by mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA273; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:53:11 -0700 From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: "Mike O'Brien" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:53:11 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 vs. 2940 geometries? Reply-to: techsupport@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <199804272106.OAA04938@anpiel.aero.org> Message-ID: <19980428015311496.AAA273@mail.nordicdms.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Apr 98 at 14:06, Mike O'Brien wrote: > Do the Adaptec 1542 and the 2940 translate disk geometries differently? > My 1542 died and, not having a spare, we plugged a 2940 into the machine. It > didn't seem to work too well (like, things went nuts after trying to start the > boot program) so we were wondering if the 1542 and the 2940 use different disk > geometry translations? I believe it depends on the settings. I've been able to take a drive from a 2940 and use it on a 1540 successfully, so I'd imagine it's possible to go the other direction. Obviously, you might have problems if the controllers are configured differently, but that is true even if you swap out the same model. Look for settings like the >1GB translation setting, and see if changing them has any effect. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Tech Support Nordic Entertainment Worldwide techsupport@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message