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- From: adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!!! SCSI problem!
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- In-Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu's message of 12 Dec 1992 18: 03:18 GMT
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:59:57 GMT
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- In article <1gd9h7INNard@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs) writes:
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- > Thanks for all the help people have given me through e-mail, but it
- > still hasn't fixed the problem. I tried telling fdisk my drive settings
- > were 64 heads, 32 sectors/track and XXX cylinders. It didn't work.
- > I still get a partition table looking something like this when I do a
- > "p" from the extended fdisk menu. (its not the exact thing, but its the
- > general numbers)
-
- You may NOT use any translated values, but MUST use the actual drive
- geometry (that means: the actual number of heads/sides, the actual
- number of sectors you will use per sector, the ACTUAL number of cylinders).
-
- > Any SCSI gurus out there, I'd really appreciate it if you got down off your
- > secluded hills and took a break from your medidation to help us morals out.
-
- No guru, but got beside other systems Linux running from Adaptec 1542b
- and a CDC WREN IV.
-
- (BTW: The drive is properly terminated, you have assured yourself, haven't you.
- Controller is properly setup, no conflicting DMA and IRQ requests, NONE?
- Bus runs slow enough, 8MHz and not a cycle more..., you spent at least
- two I/O wait cycles...., DID YOU)
-
- best, adams
-