Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:22:11 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade from Adaptec 2940UW to 29160N - Problem solved! Message-ID: <1660.1038432131@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:57:49 -0700. <2270450000.1038416269@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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In message <2270450000.1038416269@aslan.scsiguy.com>, you wrote: >> The only mystery that still remains after this whole ordeal is ``Why >> was it possible to boot from the mis-allocated partition back when I >> was using the Adaptec 2940UW, even though it was clearly _not_ possible >> to boot from the exact same bleedin' partition when using a newer and >> ``more advanced'' Adaptec 29160N ? > >Most likely because the setting for "extended translation" was not the >same on both controllers. Actually, it was. I am quite sure on that point. Both controllers had "BIOS support for disks > 1 GB" set to "disbled". I always set in that way for all of my *NIX systems. (And conversely, I always set it the other way for all of my Windoze systems.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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