From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 16 16:24:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25762 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25749 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 16:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id BAA19557; Sun, 17 May 1998 01:15:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03608; Sun, 17 May 1998 01:07:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980517010719.A3600@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:07:19 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G References: <19980516231040.A2524@klemm.gtn.com> <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Sat, May 16, 1998 at 04:59:21PM -0600 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 16, 1998 at 04:59:21PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> 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. Hmm, ok, then it seems to be my fault. Thanks ... -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message