Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:07:19 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: jbryant@unix.tfs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G Message-ID: <19980517010719.A3600@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Sat, May 16, 1998 at 04:59:21PM -0600 References: <19980516231040.A2524@klemm.gtn.com> <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com>
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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
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