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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:22:45 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <470d95$1gr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <814658177.16718@kiss.demon.co.uk> <46mhpe$qok@trout.progroup.com> <DH3H72.EoJ@theatre.pandora.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote: >SCSI host adapters see a disk drive as a number of 512k blocks. 512 bytes, actually. :-) >Ah, and what we shouldn't forget: older Adaptec 1542B BIOSes (like >mine) cannot handle drivers over 1 gig. You need a BIOS update, >which is freely available on their ftp server and their BBS (at >least, here in Germany it is.) But that's only relevant for BIOS access (for DOS, or to access the /kernel inside the FreeBSD root partition). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)