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From: "brian wehrle" <brianw@aa.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: aha 1522A today, 2940UW a month later
Date: 6 Jan 1997 06:49:29 GMT
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> : on the SCSI disk. I have ordered a 2940UW to plug into a PCI slot but
> : the card won't be here for another month. If I partition the disk
> : and install 2.2 BETA, would I need to repartition and reinstall the
> : system once I replace the 1522 with a 2940UW? My hunch is that I don't
> : need to unless something card-specific goes into the disklabel.
> 
> Most likely yes, you will have to backup and reformat the drive.  I
> suspect the 1522A and the 2940UW have differing translation schemes.


Translation Schemes? For what ?  I disagree on this, but if you could prove
me wrong
I would appreciate it. I don't see how two different models of scsi
controllers would represent
a disk to the BIOS differently. 

Brian Wehrle