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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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