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From: Stephan.Maurer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Stephan Maurer)
Subject: installation failed on IBM silverdisk-2 with 1542b
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:21:14 GMT
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Last weekend I tried to install 386bsd on my new IBM Silverdisk 2 (1,2 GB).
I know that my Adaptec 1542b translates the disk geometry for DOS to a
maximum of 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders, so that I can not
use my disk under DOS without modifikation of the Controller BIOS but I
thought that it would be no problem to install a Unix on the disk.

The `install' command crashed with a comment of `Wrong disk geometry'
controller error, or something like that.

Is it possible that the SCSI-driver I have on my dist.fs bootdisk works
in translated mode so that he cannot access disks with more than 1GB?

Where can I get either a newer dist.fs (SCSI-driver) or an image to burn
a new Controller BIOS, or is there anything else I did wrong?

Stephan

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