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- From: brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Primary SCSI, secondary athd on ISC Unix 3.0 possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.023217.5492@slammer.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 02:32:17 GMT
- References: <BtGpvF.9tv@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Aug25.235519.19024@slammer.UUCP> <1992Aug26.203529.1774@ico.isc.com>
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- In article <1992Aug26.203529.1774@ico.isc.com> dougp@ico.isc.com (Doug Pintar) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug25.235519.19024@slammer.UUCP> brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley) writes:
- >>
- >>In the 2.2.1 manuals it says you can do this by telling your computer's
- >>CMOS that there are no hard drives installed. Then it WILL boot from the
- >>Adaptec controller. After that, ISC will know how to access your ST-506
- >>drives without using the CMOS stuff. BTW: I never tried this - I dunno
- >>what 3.0 says, but I imagine this would be the same.
- >>
- >The problem with this is that the AT-compatible controller module then has
- >absolutely no idea as to the geometry of the drives. This makes it rough
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- Yea, that's true, but can't you tell Unix what the geometry is?
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