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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD <> Adaptec Date: 10 May 1996 07:50:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4musgc$ner@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jm040795-0905961029200001@mencju.apple.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) wrote: > I tried installing FreeBSD onto my hard drive and my hard drives geometry > data got screwed up. I don't think Adaptec's BIOS translation is > comapatible with FreeBSD 2.1. Are there some updates out there, something > that'll work for my setup? See my other posting. All BIOS translations that produce valid int 0x13 parameters are compatible with FreeBSD, including of course, Adaptec's. There are thousands of users using it. Yes, there are (experimental) updates, they have fixed the bug you mentioned where the MBR of the first drive has been touched even if not asked to write there. If you've got more questions, better describe your problem in some more detail, preferably to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org or (slower response time) here. -- 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. ;-)