From: adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) Subject: Re: HELP!!!! SCSI problem! Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:59:57 GMT
In article <1gd9h7INNard@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs) writes:
> Thanks for all the help people have given me through e-mail, but it
> still hasn't fixed the problem. I tried telling fdisk my drive settings
> were 64 heads, 32 sectors/track and XXX cylinders. It didn't work.
> I still get a partition table looking something like this when I do a
> "p" from the extended fdisk menu. (its not the exact thing, but its the
> general numbers)
You may NOT use any translated values, but MUST use the actual drive
geometry (that means: the actual number of heads/sides, the actual
number of sectors you will use per sector, the ACTUAL number of cylinders).
> Any SCSI gurus out there, I'd really appreciate it if you got down off your
> secluded hills and took a break from your medidation to help us morals out.
No guru, but got beside other systems Linux running from Adaptec 1542b
and a CDC WREN IV.
(BTW: The drive is properly terminated, you have assured yourself, haven't you.
Controller is properly setup, no conflicting DMA and IRQ requests, NONE?
Bus runs slow enough, 8MHz and not a cycle more..., you spent at least
two I/O wait cycles...., DID YOU)
best, adams