From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 12:44:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00876 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:44:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles249.castles.com [208.214.165.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00861 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04940; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811112041.MAA04940@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jonathan Smith cc: jack , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390 and 3.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:19:22 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:41:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Boot up hardware test reports the DC-390F as ncr0. We've had it up for a > while with a problem in large volume address translation (requiring boot > from floppy), but we think that was our own misconfiguration. We shall be > bringing it back up within a week, if you'd like a report then. That's probably correct - if you installed the system using sysinstall and elected to use "dangerously dedicated mode" (all disk, not cross-compatible), the NCR BIOS will usually get the geometry wrong (it looks to see how the disk is laid out, and doesn't understand what a DD layout looks like). Some system BIOSses make the same mistakes on IDE disks. It is for this reason that we *strongly* *discourage* the use of this mode. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message