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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!xs4all!falstaff From: falstaff@xs4all.nl (Falstaff) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PCI 2940 Config (and NCR) Date: 5 Sep 1995 23:42:49 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Lines: 21 Message-ID: <42in9p$32j@news.xs4all.nl> References: <4298im$h4@trauma.rn.com> <42abn3$mkv@crl.crl.com> <1995Sep3.134248.26342@wavehh.hanse.de> <42f5tp$ca@trauma.rn.com> <DEFv3A.Cq2@xenitec.on.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs1.xs4all.nl X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #666 (NOV) X-Posted-By: falstaff@xs1.xs4all.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:37033 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5703 vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) writes: >In article <42f5tp$ca@trauma.rn.com>, Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote: >> >>I'm beginning to think I need to disable the "Bios translation for >>drives greater than 1 gig" with is by default enabled with the 2940. Yes. I was amazed to see that you had them enabled. Manual says that it is _just_for_DOS_, and should always be disabled if no DOS partition is used which might otherwise need cylinders >1023. You'll need to recreate all partitions, so get the tape drive ready... >Good luck, I can't seem to get the damn thing to stop translating >no matter what the the SCSIselect settings are set to. Strange that. Frank -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frank A. Vorstenbosch +31-(70)-355 5241 falstaff@xs4all.nl