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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <> Adaptec Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 07:14:33 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31932519.15FB7483@mindspring.com> References: <jm040795-0905961029200001@mencju.apple.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rlb.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Raven wrote: > > I tried installing FreeBSD onto my hard drive and my hard drives geometry > data got screwed up. I don't think Adaptec's BIOS translation is > comapatible with FreeBSD 2.1. Are there some updates out there, something > that'll work for my setup? > > I have an Adaptec 2940 and 2 2gig Seagate drives. -I don't understand all your problems. I have installd FBSD 2.1R on several machines without a problem, 2940 and segate 2gig included, both on the first and second drive. You can boot from dos floppy and use fdisk /mbr to restore dos or NT. Ron - **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin: rlb@mindspring.com gs01rlb@panther.gsu.edu * GSU CS Grad Student:http://www2.gsu.edu/~gs01rlb/ * Home: 770-992-8877 Work: 770-263-2273 ****************************************************************************