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From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Subject: Re: Translation Adaptec 1542 versus NCR810
To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 03:16:21 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199511272108.AA03114@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Nov 27, 95 10:08:01 pm
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It seems that Stefan Esser said:
> The NCR bios ought to use the values the drive
> has been initialised with, if it has been used
> with an Adaptec before. If its a clean install,

In that case, the   drive was out of  the  box, first configured  with  the
geometry displayed by the drive and it  didn't boot. I  then took the total
number of sectors, divided by the values of sect/trk and heads displayed by
"boot -v" and calculated the # of cylinders.

It booted like a charm. 

The boot problem may    have  been  caused  by    the 2.0.5  MBR    manager
though. Without any boot MGR at all, no problem to boot.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
   FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Nov  6 21:08:06 MET 1995