From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 16 16:03:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22933 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22920 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:03:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23704; Sat, 16 May 1998 17:03:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Andreas Klemm cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , jbryant@unix.tfs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 May 1998 23:10:40 +0200." <19980516231040.A2524@klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 16:59:21 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> FreeBSD doesn't care very much about the translation. The only time it >> matters is for booting. For your boot device, you must ensure that the >> fdisk information matches the geometry set in the BIOS so that the boot >> blocks are placed in the correct location for the BIOS to find them. > >While we are at it ... could you explain to me, why I can't move >harddisks between different flavours of AHA2940 controllers ? This is because you have different extended translation settings on the two cards and have disks greater than 1Gig that have not been partitioned using a consistent translation. I switch between a 2940AU, 2940UW, 2940U2W, and a 2940UW dual all the time in my test box and it boots just fine. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message