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Date:      Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:43:26 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
Message-ID:  <199611240843.JAA09759@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611231656.IAA17156@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 23, 96 08:56:01 am"

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As Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

>   You can use the dangerously
> dedicated mode on the NCR just fine, and I usually set the drives
> up this way with a 64/32 translation so that the drive can easily
> be moved between any of the NCR/Buslogic/Adaptec controllers since
> they all understand 64/32.

Btw., you can use whatever translation you want with `DD' mode, as
long as the number of sectors per track is >= 15.  Obviously, this
wasn't the case for this (erroneous) 1/1 translation, but all `real
world' translations should fit.  That's one of the reasons why i'm
advocating for `DD` that much; you'll soon forget the word `geometry'.
;-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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