Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Craig Miller <dcm@srdi.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC-7780 (integrated scsi) supported? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980501093914.7595A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.95.980501112809.11081E-100000@journyx.com>
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Craig Miller wrote: > Hi, > My apologies in advance if I've chosen the wrong mailing list. > > I've checked the FreeBSD Disk Controller list and it lists the > Adaptec AIC7850 as supported. Is the AIC7880 also supported? Yes (this is a hardware question). > I have a 4.3gb UW scsi drive with NT (preinstalled) on the first 2gb > partition and want to install 2.2.6 on the remaining portion of > the drive. On my first attempt I split the remaining sectors into a > 1gb and a 1.3gb partition and successfully installed Freebsd on the > first, but when I try to put filesystems on the 1.3gb partition, > filesystems on the 1gb partition get wiped out, almost as if > the newfs writes were going to random sectors. (This really belongs freebsd-questions) FreeBSD has been given the wrong partitioning info, so they are actually overlapping. Probably a bad disk label, or a geometry problem. Are the partitions you speak of slices? How are you refering to them? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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