From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 21:47:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA23717 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:47:02 -0700 Received: from temptation.interlog.com (temp@temptation.interlog.com [198.53.146.54]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA23710 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:46:58 -0700 Received: (from temp@localhost) by temptation.interlog.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA16991; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 00:43:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 00:43:55 -0400 From: Temptation Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: fcawth@squid.umd.edu, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.Org In-Reply-To: <199506030432.VAA09259@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.Org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Jun 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > ... > > > BIG CAUTION. The NCR controller does not always use the 32 sector 64 head > > > translation that the adaptec does. I have found that the NCR is using > > > 34 head 62 sector geometries on the 1 G drives I am using and not sure on > > > the 535MB since I have not installed DOS on one of them to see. > > > > > > Be very carefull when trying to move from one controller to another, > > > translation schemes vary between manufactures! > > > > it's not just Manufactures, I can't move a hard drive from 1542CF -> 1742 > > -> 2742t/2940/2842 (adaptec) 1gig to 4gig, Maxtor/Seagate/Quatum/Fuj/Toshiba > > and thats with all the cards being set up the same. > > You could have saved your self the grief if you would have left the > >1G drive support translation turned off as recommended in the Adaptec > documentation for using *all* of there controllers with Unix. that had no affect on it. on or off. Adaptec sent me new bios's and microcode for 1740 ( I have 10 of them by the way, so it wasn't just one card problem) same problem, tho the new bios did fix some other problems, It did not fix the problem of moving a drive to another scsi controller, without the data being corrupted. Moving from 27/28/29 is fine tho. > > > > -- > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com > Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD >