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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing Controllers..... Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 13:54:16 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31191F88.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4f96id$46l@nntp.igs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Frank Kahle <frank@igs.net> Frank Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to change from an Adaptec 1542 controller to an Adaptec > 2940 controller. However when I try to boot from the drives with the > 2940, it says "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM". Does anyone know of a way > around this problem? In your case, it's probably just a matter of turning on cylinder translation (or turning it OFF if it was off before) and hoping that Adaptec didn't change their translation scheme between the two controllers. Adaptec marks this option as "Support for drives >1MB?" If they did change the translation, then your only hope is a reinstall or booting forever more off a floppy! :-( -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project