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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2742W and Seagate 43xxxxN
Date: 9 Aug 1995 09:52:18 +0200
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Matt,
i don't have an idea about your 2742 problems, but just a reminder:

Matt Rosenberg  <mar7@cec.wustl.edu> wrote:

>...  During a manual config 
>during boot, the system correctly probed the ahc1 device and 
>found the correct information.  During bootup it says it has
>found a device sd0, but it incorrectly reads it as 6GB.  (It 
>flies by too fast to read the exact geometry if it does in fact 
>show it.)

You can boot with `-v' to get verbose boot messages.

You can hit ScrLck, followed by PgUp, to re-read the boot messages
later.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)