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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:41:36 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: fdisk and partition info
Message-ID:  <199603302241.XAA04940@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603291712.KAA05715@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 29, 96 10:12:25 am

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As Terry Lambert wrote:

> > I don't see any such assumption.  I have 3 SCSI controllers: U34F,
> > BT445C and SC200.   I've only used the U34F with 64/32 geometry.
> > The BT445C and the SC200 work with assorted drives in assorted
> > translation modes giving 64/32, 128/32 and 255/63 geometries.
> 
> What happens if you turn of translation on the things?  (yes, I
> know this is not a possibility for Adaptec).

I wonder how you wanna turn it off: the SCSI protocol does only know
about locical block numbers, so if you wanna interface the drive with
some int 0x13 C/H/S value, you always end up with some sort of
translation.

If you speak directly in SCSI block numbers, nothing will be
translated at any time.

-- 
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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