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- From: smitty@essnj1.essnjay.com (Hibbard T. Smith JR)
- Subject: AHA1540-A ???
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.201312.22919@essnj1.essnjay.com>
- Organization: ESSNJAY Systems Inc.
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:13:12 GMT
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- I'm just starting to try and install linux-0.98p5. The system uses an Adaptec
- AHA-1542-A scsi host adapter, Maxtor 8380-S and a Maxtor LXT-200-S.
- It also has a Toshiba CD-ROM, a Genoa 7000 VGA, a 33 Mhz 386 (with 387), and
- 8 Mb. of RAM. Almost forgot, there's a Media Vision Pro-Audio Spectrum in
- there also. I'm trying to put linux on the LXT-200.
-
- Everything goes okay until the fdisk. Even that seems to work okay, but the
- subsequent reboot says that /dev/sdb has a bad partition entry. A new fdisk
- execution confirms that the partition table is garbled. Needless to say,
- everything on the drive is gone. BTW: I am entering the head, sector and
- cylinder params as used by the Adaptec BIOS (64, 32, 191 respectively).
-
- If anyone's heard of anything like this, and can give me a clue where to start,
- I'd sure appreciate it.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help ...
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- Smitty
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- Hibbard T. Smith JR smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM
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