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From: bob@obiwan.uucp
Subject: Re: Anyone successful with UltraStor 12F use???
References: <1993Nov10.171540.18089@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <CGCEvM.6Bs@news.cis.umn.edu>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 04:48:43 GMT
Message-ID: <CGD41L.Iyx@obiwan.uucp>
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In article <CGCEvM.6Bs@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Rick Odeen <rodeen@maroon.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
[stuff about Ultrastor 12f problems deleted]
>>I know that there are at least two other potential users that have the same
>>hardware (ultrastor 12f, 300+ mb esdi drive for primary boot drive), and also
>>are suffering from the same problem.
>
>I'm probably one of those "other two" people and my symptoms are identical.
>I've tried all possible combinations of setting with the controller and
>placement of FreeBSD on the drive including starting at cyl 0 and 1.
>
>Has anyone used NetBSD with this controller? Is this just a problem with
>FreeBSD? I'd swear I used this controller back in the bad ol' days of
>386BSD 0.1, but it may have been an Adaptec ESDI controller.
I have been running several systems with these controllers on them
with various versions of 386bsd and FreeBSD without problems. I set
mine up to reseve one spare sector per track so that the disks were
error free. You give up some space, but it has been more than worth
it to me to not have to deal with bad sector forwarding.
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