Mark Garlanger wrote:
>
> I having a problem with my new system: Tyan Thunder 2 with
> the aic-7895 controller. I have a 8.7G U/W Micropolis drive
> that I had been using with a PPro system(and aic-7880) with
> no problems, but when I put it on my new system instead of
> translating the number of heads/sectors/cylinders to
> a reasonable number 255/63/1037 like the old system would
> do, it leaves it at 64/32/8296 which causes problems with
> lilo. Even though the two systems sees the drive differently,
> I am still boot from it without reformating. It is currently
> on 2.0.34. I faintly remember being able to specify the
> harddrive parameters at the boot prompt and I tried
> "sda=255,63,1037" without any luck. In the MB Bios I have
> disabled the IDE totally. In the SCSI BIOS I have enabled
> the option for >1G Drives but it seems to not affect it.
> I am open for any ideas....
My 5.1.12 driver version should solve this problem for people. It still uses
Adaptec partition sizes if no partitions are defined, but if there are already
defined partitions, then it uses the sizes listed in those partitions.
--
Doug Ledford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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