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	Hmm.. I thought it wouldn't matter since Adaptec and it's BIOS
would handle it, no? Yes, the PC has Award BIOS I think. Not sure about
Adaptec's BIOS version however.

-- Yan

Jan Koum                  jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve  |   to go home in the dark."

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Doug White wrote:

>On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Jan Koum wrote:
>
>> 	Same problem, different machine. I am installing 2.2.6-RELEASE on
>> Seagate Barracuda 34371W SCSI disk with 2940UW Adaptec card. All disk is
>> going to the FreeBSD ("dangerous dedicated" mode). Every time after
>> install I get "Read Error". I tried to use different geometries and
>> even splitting the drive into different BSD partitions. No luck.
>
>What BIOS? Award BIOSes are known to get pushy about the disklabel.
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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