From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Nov 12 10:01:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA09710 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:01:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA09698 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:01:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id KAA18809; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06690; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:01:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611121801.KAA06690@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com cc: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com, rschof@mccomm.nl, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After changing to an AHA2940 I can't boot the kernel. In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 12 Nov 96 00:17:03 -0800. <9610128478.AA847814742@ccgate.infoworld.com> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 10:01:19 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> This is theoretically possible. But in the Real World, I have never >> seen this happen, juggling drives between a BusLogic BT747s, a BT956c, >> an Adaptec 2940UW, and an NCR 53c810. I think I mixed a 1542 in there >> a few times, too, but I'm not positive. >It depends on the geometry of the drive. The 1542 doesn't support the same >translation schemes as many of the others. I've had trouble moving between >1542s and 27xx's in the past, not to mention between 1542s and non-Adaptec >models. That must be the key, then: the 1542 is the weak link in the chain. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------