From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 20:04:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20096 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (root@jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20080 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:04:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (root@saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id UAA18010; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:04:10 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id UAA04514; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542 vs. 2940 geometries? In-Reply-To: <199804272106.OAA04938@anpiel.aero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, 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? The 2940 requires DMA busmastering. Does your PCI bus support this? My 2940 works, but I can't boot from it because fo motherboard incompatibilities. Perhaps your problem is similar. What do you mean by, "Went nuts?" Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message