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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!kbad.eglin.af.mil!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!ipgaix!peppe From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (Giuseppe Vitillaro) Subject: Adaptec 1542b and geometry translation Message-ID: <1994Feb03.220402.109186@ipgaix.unipg.it> Organization: Universita' di Perugia Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 22:04:02 GMT Lines: 19 I just switched my disk from the an old IDE/SCSI controller to Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller. I noted that Adaptec 1542b is doing geometry translation (1Mb = 1 cyl) and I already have DOS installed (and I want to keep it). For what I know geometry translation cannot be disabled in 1542b. Is that true? If this is the case should I apply what I found at point 2.5.5 of the faq (that seems a pontentially dangerous partition machinery)? Thank for any suggestion, Peppe. -- Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA | E-Mail : peppe@unipg.it University of Perugia Italy | 06100 Perugia Phone:+39.75.585-2799 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All comments/opinions are mine and don't represent those of IBM