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I've had the same problems.  

Kevin Chu wrote:
> 
> This was posted in linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, and it's not getting
> any replies.  What do the people on this list think?
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Tomasz Motylewski wrote:
> 
> > The recent update of aic7xxx in 2.0.36 kernel (pre13-pre14 transition) made
> > "extended translation ENABLED" the default setting, independed of the BIOS
> > setting (which was the default before). It breaks fdisk and LILO on SCSI
> > disks formatted with extended translation disabled (see examples on
> > http://crds.chemie.unibas.ch/machine/2.0.36pre19/ )
> >
> > I would like to ask if there is any way of switching off extended translation
> > in Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version  5.1.3/3.2.4 ? If the source code
> > modification is the only way, what would be the first place to add it?
> >
> > How hard would it be to make aic7xxx driver to read default value of this
> > parameter from BIOS again ?
> >
> > Please CC any replies to motyl@stan.chemie.unibas.ch
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Tomasz Motylewski
> >
> > P.S. To test:  boot new kernel, run fdisk on your SCSI disk, display
> > partition table. If you had used extended translation before, you won :-)
>

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