From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 28 13:40:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28651 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pigstuy ([207.113.85.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28456 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:39:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by pigstuy (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00347; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:37:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pigstuy: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@pigstuy Reply-To: spork 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? > > Mike O'Brien > The 2940 uses a different driver than the 1542. Are you running a custom kernel? try booting kernel.GENERIC -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message