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- From: ifai645@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul C. Janzen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B Question
- Message-ID: <85479@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 01:45:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec5.174057.9886@udel.edu> <1992Dec09.194049.7866@adaptx1.UUCP>
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1992Dec09.194049.7866@adaptx1.UUCP> neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
- >Do not use this upgrade package if you intend on using another OS other
- >than DOS as most of the non-DOS drivers are canned to use the 64 head by
- >32 sector translation.
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- I thought that most Unices (for the 386) popped into protected mode
- and ignored the Bios translation after that. So it doesn't really
- matter what translation you pick: the driver talks to the SCSI drive
- in a fundamentally different manner than BIOS. I know that this is the
- case for Linux. The only software that cares about the head/sector
- translation is the partitioning software and the boot-from-harddisk
- software.
-
- I don't know about other operating systems, though.
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