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- From: Stephan.Maurer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Stephan Maurer)
- Subject: installation failed on IBM silverdisk-2 with 1542b
- Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:21:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.133835.11424@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- Last weekend I tried to install 386bsd on my new IBM Silverdisk 2 (1,2 GB).
- I know that my Adaptec 1542b translates the disk geometry for DOS to a
- maximum of 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders, so that I can not
- use my disk under DOS without modifikation of the Controller BIOS but I
- thought that it would be no problem to install a Unix on the disk.
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- The `install' command crashed with a comment of `Wrong disk geometry'
- controller error, or something like that.
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- Is it possible that the SCSI-driver I have on my dist.fs bootdisk works
- in translated mode so that he cannot access disks with more than 1GB?
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- Where can I get either a newer dist.fs (SCSI-driver) or an image to burn
- a new Controller BIOS, or is there anything else I did wrong?
-
- Stephan
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- Mail: Stephan.Maurer@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
- Real: Stephan Maurer, FB 10 Informatik (Theorie)
- Uni Oldenburg, 2900 Oldenburg (Germany)
- phone: 0441/798-2197
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