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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:25:48 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrade from Adaptec 2940UW to 29160N - Problem solved! 
Message-ID:  <88253.1038342348@monkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:15:11 %2B0100. <200211261815.gAQIFBnb058918@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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In message <200211261815.gAQIFBnb058918@uriah.heep.sax.de>, you wrote:

>"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> wrote:
>
>> So I bought a used Adaptec 29160N (Ultra160) off eBay, swapped out
>> the old 2940UW and swapped in the 29160N.  No go.  Now the FreeBSD
>> BootManager refused to boot from my one and only partition on the
>> drive.  It would just prompt me enticingly with that "F1" prompt
>> but then just beep whenever I tried to hit return or the F1 key.
>
>Welcome to the wonderful world of the prehistoric "fdisk" table.

Oh yea.

But this is hardly my first encounter with the fdisk partition table.

>I'm surprised that even different Adaptec controllers now start to
>experience that geometry mishmash.

Yes, it was damn surprising to me too.

>Previously, this was only a known
>symptom when migrating a disk from a Symbios Logic based controller to
>an Adaptec one.

Well, welcome to the wonderful world of Adaptec/Adaptec incompatability.

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