Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 16:59:21 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, jbryant@unix.tfs.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ahc0 - translation for drives > 1G Message-ID: <199805162303.RAA23704@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 May 1998 23:10:40 %2B0200." <19980516231040.A2524@klemm.gtn.com>
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>> FreeBSD doesn't care very much about the translation. The only time it >> matters is for booting. For your boot device, you must ensure that the >> fdisk information matches the geometry set in the BIOS so that the boot >> blocks are placed in the correct location for the BIOS to find them. > >While we are at it ... could you explain to me, why I can't move >harddisks between different flavours of AHA2940 controllers ? This is because you have different extended translation settings on the two cards and have disks greater than 1Gig that have not been partitioned using a consistent translation. I switch between a 2940AU, 2940UW, 2940U2W, and a 2940UW dual all the time in my test box and it boots just fine. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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